پیشكیر

See also: پیشگیر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پشگیر (peşgir), پشكیر (peşkir)
• پشكر (peşker)

Etymology

From Persian پیشگیر (piš-gir).

Noun

پیشگیر or پیشكیر • (peşgir or peşkir)

1. towel

   Synonyms: بلوز (beluz), دستار (destar)

2. napkin, bib

Descendants

• Turkish: peşkir, dialectally also peşgir, peşker
• → Albanian: peshqir, peshkir — Gheg, peshir — Gheg
• → Arabic: بَشْكِير (baškīr)
• → Bulgarian: пешки́р (peškír)
• → Greek: πεσκίρι (peskíri)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: pêjgîr, pêşkîr

• → Macedonian: пешкир (peškir)
• → Romanian: peșchir
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: пѐшкӣр

  Latin script: pèškīr

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پیشكیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 832
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پیشكیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 993