چمشیر

Ottoman Turkish

چمشیر

Alternative forms

• شمشیر (şimşir), شمشار (şimşar), شمشاد (şimşad)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish شمشاد (şimşad), from Persian شمشاد (šemšâd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃim.ˈʃiɾ]

Noun

چمشیر • (çimşir)

1. box (Buxus sempervirens)

Derived terms

• چمشیرلك (çimşirlik, “place of box; the prince-prison”)

Descendants

• Turkish: şimşir
• → Albanian: shimshir
• → Aromanian: šimšír
• → Bulgarian: чимши́р (čimšír), чемши́р (čemšír)
• → Greek: τσιμσίρι (tsimsíri), τσιμισίρι (tsimisíri)
• → Karachay-Balkar: шемсер (şemser)
• → Macedonian: шимшир (šimšir)
• → Romanian: cimișir, cimșir
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: шѝмшир

  Latin script: šìmšir

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چمشیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1650
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چمشیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2860
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1436. ŠIMŠÍR”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[3], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 179
• Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13^th to the 16^th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎^[4], Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 241