انجیر

Ottoman Turkish

انجیر

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian انجیر (anjir, “fig”), from Middle Persian ʾncyl (anjīr, “fig”).

Noun

انجیر • (incir or encir) (definite accusative انجیری (inciri, enciri), plural انجیرلر (incirler, encirler))

1. fig, the edible fruit of the tree Ficus carica, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds

   Synonym: تین (tin)

Derived terms

• اركك انجیر (erkek incir, “male fig”)
• انجیر آدم (incir âdem, “prickly pear”)
• انجیر آغاجی (incir ağacı, “fig tree”)
• انجیر دلن (incir delen, “figpecker”)
• انجیر قوشی (incir kuşu, “figpecker”)
• انجیرلنمك (incirlenmek, “for a ripe fig, to start opening”)
• بادنجان انجیری (bâdincân inciri, “purple fig”)
• سلیم انجیری (selim inciri, “a variety of fig”)
• عرب انجیری (ʼarab inciri, “prickly pear”)
• فرعون انجیری (firʼavun inciri, “sycamore”)
• فرنك انجیری (frenk inciri, “a variety of fig”)
• قورو انجیر (kuru incir, “dried fig”)
• قوطی انجیری (kutu inciri, “figs in drums”)
• لوپ انجیری (lop inciri, “variety of delicate figs”)
• وزیر انجیری (vezir inciri, “variety of large, green figs”)
• چیچك انجیری (çiçek inciri, “the best variety of wild fig”)
• یاز انجیری (yaz inciri, “summer fig”)
• یاش انجیر (yaş incir, “fresh fig”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: incir

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “انجیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 123
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “incir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2172
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “انجیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 70a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انجیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 154
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ficus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 570
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انجیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 447–448
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “incir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انجیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 214

Persian

Dari	انجیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	анҷир

Etymology

From Middle Persian ʾncyl (anjīr, “fig”). Cognates found in Sogdian ʾncyr (anjēr) and Northern Kurdish hejîr. From the same Middle Iranian source, this word has been borrowed into Turkish incir, Russian инжир (inžir) and Sanskrit अञ्जीर (añjīra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔan.ˈd͡ʒiːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔän.d͡ʒíːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔän.d͡ʒíːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔän.d͡ʒíːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔän.d͡ʒíɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæn.d͡ʒíːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔän.d͡ʒíɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	anjīr
Dari reading?	anjīr
Iranian reading?	anjir
Tajik reading?	anjir

Noun

انجیر • (anjir)

1. fig

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: əncir, incir
• → Chechen: инжир (inžir)
• → Sanskrit: अञ्जीर (añjīra)
  • → Gujarati: અંજીર (añjīr)
  • → Hindi: अंजीर (añjīr)
• → Ottoman Turkish: انجیر (encir, incir)
  • Turkish: incir
• → Russian: инжир (inžir)
• → Urdu: انجیر (añjīr)

Southwestern Fars

Noun

انجیر (anjir)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) fig

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ən.d͡ʒiːɾ/
• Rhymes: -iːɾ
• Hyphenation: اَنْ‧جِیر

Noun

اَنْجِیر • (anjīr) m (Hindi spelling अंजीर)

1. ficus (tree)
2. fig (fruit)