شتر

See also: سپر, ستر, and سبز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اشتر (uştur)

Etymology

From Classical Persian شتر (šutur, “camel”).

Noun

شتر • (şütür)

1. camel

   Synonym: دوه (deve)

   شتر بار ― a camel load (about 700 pounds)

Derived terms

• شترك (şütürek)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شتر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 720
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شتر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1116

Persian

Dari	شتر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шутур

این شتر خیلی کنجکاو است.

in šotor xeili konjkâv ast
This camel is very inquisitive.

Alternative forms

• اشتر (oštor) (archaic, dialectal)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-Iranian *úštras

Proto-Iranian *úštrah

Classical Persian اُشْتُر (uštur)

Persian شُتُر

From Middle Persian [script needed] (GMRA, ʾwštl /⁠uštar⁠/, “camel”), from Proto-Iranian *úštrah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *úštras.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃu.ˈtuɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃʊ.t̪ʰʊ́ɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃʊ.t̪ʰʊ́ɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃʊ.t̪ʰʊ́ɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔu.ʃu.t̪ʰúɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃo.t̪ʰóɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃu.t̪ʰúɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	šutur
Dari reading?	šutur
Iranian reading?	šotor
Tajik reading?	šutur

Noun

شتر • (šotor)

1. camel

Derived terms

• شترمرغ (šotormorğ)
• شتربان (šotorbân)
• شترخار (šotorxâr)
• شترگاوپلنگ (šotor-gâv-palang)
• شتر دوکوهان (šotor-e do-kuhân)

Descendants

• → Gujarati: શુતર (śutar)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ੁਤਰ (śutar)

  Shahmukhi script: شتر (šutar)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “شتر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “اشتر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• David Neil MacKenzie (1990-12-15) “Camel”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York