Aissor

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Aissor (plural Aissors)

  1. A member of a certain group of people of Chaldean descent inhabiting the Caucasus.
    • 1971, LIFE, volume 70, number 3, page 13:
      William Shedd, armed with a Bible and an umbrella, who kept the Kurds from being massacred by the Aissors in 1917.
    • 1993, Erich Brauer, Raphael Patai, The Jews of Kurdistan, page 84:
      In the trousers-and-jacket we evidently have a garment of great antiquity, the origin of which I have not yet succeeded in tracing. It is found not only among the Surai but also among certain sections of the Armenians and among the Aissors of the Caucasus.