میسر

See also: ميسر

Central Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِصْر (miṣr).

Noun

میسر (mîsr)

1. Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَيْسِر (maysir, “gambling”).

Noun

میسر • (meysir) (definite accusative میسری (meysiri), plural میسرلر (meysirler))

1. gambling, an activity characterised by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by a mixture of skill and chance

   Synonym: قمار (kumar)

2. maysir, a game of chance of drawing lots from arrows with typically seven participants for the shares in an allotted prize

Descendants

• Turkish: meysir

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meysir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3187
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “meysir”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 763
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میسر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1256
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میسر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5073
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میسر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2054

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُيَسَّر (muyassar).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mu.jas.ˈsaɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊ.jäs.sǽɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊ.jäs.sǽɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mʊ.jäs.sǽɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mu.jäs.sǽɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mo.jæs.sǽɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mu.jäs.sǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	muyassar
Dari reading?	muyassar
Iranian reading?	moyassar
Tajik reading?	muyassar

Adjective

میسر • (moyassar)

1. possible; feasible; procurable, available

   Synonym: ممکن (momken)

   نابرده رنج گنج میسر نمی‌شود.

   nâborde ranj ganj moyassar ne-mi-šavad.

   No pain, no gain.

   (literally, “Without undergoing pain, treasure cannot become available. (a proverb)”)

2. easy

   Synonym: آسان (âsân)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 484:

     گر میسر کردن حق ره بدی
     هر جهود و گبر از او آگه بدی

     gar muyassar kardan-i haq rah budē
     har juhūd u gabr az ō āgah budē

     If God's making [religion] easy were the [right] road, every Jew and Zoroastrian would have knowledge of Him.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मयस्सर (mayassar), मुयस्सर (muyassar)

  Urdu: میسّر (mayassar, muyassar)