مرمر

Ottoman Turkish

مرمر

Etymology

Borrowed from either Persian مرمر (marmar) or Arabic مرمر (marmar), both from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros, “marble”).

Noun

مرمر • (mermer) (definite accusative مرمری (mermeri), plural مرمرلر (mermerler))

1. marble, a metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone

   Synonym: رخام (ruham)

2. (by extension) slab, block, or object made of marble
3. cement or plaster used as a last coating for inner walls

Derived terms

• آلاجه مرمر (alaca mermer, “streaked, variegated marble”)
• صو مرمری (su mermeri, “alabaster”)
• قایماق مرمری (kaymak mermeri, “white marble”)
• مرمر اوجاغی (mermer ocağı, “marble quarry”)
• مرمر ایلیكی (mermer iliği, “kind of soft carbonate of lime”)
• مرمر دلبندی (mermer dülbendi, “book muslin”)
• مرمر شاهی (mermer şahı, “book muslin”)
• مرمر قازمق (mermer kazmak, “to engrave on marble”)
• مرمر كیرجی (mermer kireci, “lime from burnt marble, albarium”)
• مرمرجی (mermerci, “marble worker”)
• مرمرلك (mermerlik, “place paved with marble”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: mermer
• → Armenian: մէռմէռ (mēṙmēṙ)
• → Macedonian: мермер (mermer)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ме̏рмер

  Latin script: mȅrmer

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مرمر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 753
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mermer”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3156
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mermer”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 743
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرمر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1152a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Marmor”, 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 1012
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرمر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4583
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-05-04) “mermer”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-05-23
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرمر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1815

Persian

Dari	مرمر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мармар

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [maɾ.ˈmaɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäɾ.mǽɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäɾ.mǽɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäɾ.mǽɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäɾ.mǽɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæɹ.mǽɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäɾ.mǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	marmar
Dari reading?	marmar
Iranian reading?	marmar
Tajik reading?	marmar

Noun

مرمر • (marmar)

1. marble (stone)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: mərmər
• → Bashkir: мәрмәр (mərmər)
• → Karachay-Balkar: мәрмәр
• → Kazakh: мәрмәр (märmär)
• → Northern Kurdish: mermer
• → Nogai: мәрмәр
• → Ottoman Turkish: مرمر (mermer)
  • Turkish: mermer
  • → Armenian: մէռմէռ (mēṙmēṙ)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਰਮਰ (marmar)

  Shahmukhi script: مرمر (marmar)

• → Tatar: мәрмәр (märmär), märmär
• → Turkmen: mermer
• → Uyghur: مەرمەر (mermer)
• → Uzbek: marmar