بیراقدار
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From بیراق (bayrak, “flag, banner”) + ـدار (-dar).
Noun
[edit]بیراقدار • (bayrakdar)
- flag-bearer, standard-bearer, a person who carries a flag or banner
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: bayraktar (see there for further descendants)
- → Albanian: bajraktar
- → Arabic: بَيْرَقْدار (bayraqdār)
- → Armenian: պայրախտար (payraxtar), բայրախտար (bayraxtar)
- → Bulgarian: байракта́р (bajraktár)
- → Macedonian: бајрактар (bajraktar)
- → Serbo-Croatian: barjàktār / барја̀кта̄р
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bayraktar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 513
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیراقدار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 301
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vexillifer”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1750
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیراقدار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 982
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیراقدار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 419