موجور

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• մուճուր (mucur) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Usually considered an Armenian borrowing: compare Armenian մճիր (mčir), մոծիր (mocir, “ash, coal dust”). See also Byzantine Greek μουντζούρα (mountzoúra, “black stain, coal stain”).

Noun

موجور • (mucur, mıcır)

1. scoria, dregs
2. (colloquial) coal dust, slack
3. (figuratively) the useless portion of something

Descendants

• Turkish: mıcır, mucur

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մոծիր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 342a
• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 525, page 109
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “موجور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1243
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 328
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mıcır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موجور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2025