بیكیر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بارگیر (bârgîr)

Etymology

From Persian بارگیر (bârgir, “beast of burden”), a compound of ‍بار (bâr, “load, burden, cargo”) + گیر (gir, “carrying”).

Noun

بیگیر • (beygir)

1. pack horse, a horse used for carrying luggage

Derived terms

• بیگیر گبی (beygir gibi, “clumsy, awkward, stupid”)
• بیگیرجی (beygirci, “renter of pack horses”)

Descendants

• Turkish: beygir
• → Armenian: պէկիր (pēkir), պէյկիր (pēykir), պէրկիր (pērkir)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beygir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 572
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیكیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 303
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Caballus”, 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 129
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیكیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1004
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “beygir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیكیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 424