كیر

See also: کیر and کیر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kir (“dirt”); cognate with Azerbaijani kir, Bashkir кер (ker), Chuvash кирӗк (kirĕk), Kazakh кір (kır), Kyrgyz кир (kir), Turkmen kir, Tuvan хир (xir), Uyghur كىر (kir), Uzbek kir and Yakut кир (kir).

Noun

كیر • (kir)

1. dirt, filth, squalor, any foul matter which soils or defiles

   Synonyms: پیسلك (pislik), چرك (çirk), مردارلق (murdarlık)

Derived terms

• كیر طوتمق (kir tutmak, “to not show the dirt”)
• كیرلتمك (kirletmek, “to make or let become dirty”)
• كیرلمك (kirlemek, “to soil, befoul”)
• كیرلندرمك (kirlendirmek, “to make or let become soiled”)
• كیرلنمك (kirlenmek, “to become soiled”)
• كیرلو (kirli, “dirty, soiled, filthy”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kir

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kir1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2679
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 407a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1065
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Squalor”, 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 1589
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4112
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1610

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian کیر (kêr, “penis”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kyl /⁠kēr⁠/, “penis”).

Noun

كیر • (kir)

1. penis, the male reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse and for urination

   Synonyms: ذكر (zeker), سیك (sik)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kir3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2679
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 407a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1066
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Penis”, 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^[8], Vienna, column 1264
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 4112
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1610