معذار

Arabic

Noun

مِعْذَار • (miʕḏār)

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Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: mezər, mayzər (dialectal)
• → Ottoman Turkish: معذار (mizar), միզար (mizar) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: mezer (dialectal)
  • → Armenian: մեզար (mezar), միզար (mizar)
• → Persian: معذار (me'zâr)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• միզար (mizar) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مِعْذَار (miʕḏār).

Noun

معذار • (mizar)

1. covering, cloak; shroud
2. excuse

Descendants

• Turkish: mezer (dialectal)
• → Armenian: մեզար (mezar), միզար (mizar)

Further reading

• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 107, incorrectly deriving from Armenian
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “معذار”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 824a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “معذار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1906