سكیر

See also: سكير and سکیز

Ottoman Turkish

سڭیر

Alternative forms

• سݣر (siñir), سینیر (sinir)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *siŋir (“sinew, tendon”); cognate with Azerbaijani sinir, Bashkir һеңер (heñer), Chuvash шӑнӑр (šănăr), Kazakh сіңір (sıñır), Kyrgyz сиңир (siŋir), Turkmen siňir, Uyghur سىڭىر (si'ngir) and Uzbek singir.

Noun

سڭیر • (siñir) (plural سڭیرلر)

1. tendon, sinew, a fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment

   Synonyms: پی (pey), طنب (tunub), عصب (ʿasab), كرش (kiriş)

2. (physiology) nerve, a bundle of neurons that transmits electrical impulses all over the body

   Synonym: عصب (ʿasab)

3. (psychology) nervousness, tension, the state or quality of being nervous or anxious
4. (botany) nerve, vein, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle

Derived terms

• آق سڭیر (ak siñir, “white fibrous tissue”)
• سڭیر چكلمه‌سی (siñir çekilmesi, “contraction of a sinew”)
• سڭیرسز (siñirsiz, “without nerves”)
• سڭیرلتمك (siñirletmek, “to make or let be deprived of tendons”)
• سڭیرلمك (siñirlemek, “to hamstring”)
• سڭیرلنمك (siñirlenmek, “to be hamstrung”)
• سڭیرلو (siñirli, “provided with sinews”)
• صاری سڭیر (sarı siñir, “nuchal ligament”)
• طوپوق سڭیری (topuk siñiri, “tendon of the ankle”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sinir
• → Armenian: սինիր (sinir)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sinir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4254
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سكر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 272a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سكیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 687
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nervus”, 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 1134
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سكر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2640
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sinir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سكیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1068