عشیرت

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Arabic عَشِيرَة (ʕašīra).

Noun

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عشیرت (aşiret) (plural عشائر or عشایر)

  1. tribe, especially a nomadic tribe
    Synonym: اویماق (oymak)

Descendants

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  • Turkish: aşiret

References

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عشیرت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 847
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عشیرت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1302
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “aşiret”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN