قیصیر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قصر (kısır), قصیر (kısır)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïsïr (“barren, sterile”) and thus related to قیصراق (kısrak, “mare”); cognate with Azerbaijani qısır, Karakhanid قِسِرْ (qïsïr), Kazakh қысыр (qysyr), Kyrgyz кысыр (kısır), Southern Altai кызыр (kïzïr) and Turkmen gysyr.

Adjective

قیصیر • (kısır)

1. barren, sterile, infertile, unable to reproduce

   Synonyms: استرنك (isterenk), عقیم (akim)

Derived terms

• قیصیرلق (kısırlık, “sterility”)

Descendants

• Gagauz: kısır
• Turkish: kısır
• → Armenian: խըսըր (xəsər)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kısır1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2634
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قصر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 365b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیصیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1000
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sterilis”, 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 1596
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قصر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3707
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kısır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیصیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1508