نعلبر
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Persian نعلبر (na'l-bar, “farrier, horseshoer”), a compound of نعل (na'l, “horseshoe”) + بر (bar), present stem form of the verb بردن (bordan, “to bear”).
Noun
[edit]نعلبر • (naʼlbur or naʼlber)
- farrier, horseshoer, a person who trims the hooves and fits the horseshoe
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: nalbur
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nalbur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3485
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “na'l-bur”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 961
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نعلبر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1280
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nalbur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نعلبر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2090