kahır

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قهر (kahr), from Arabic قَهْر (qahr), verbal noun of قَهَرَ (qahara, “to oppress; to defeat”). The original sense was subjugation or calamity; the sense of the reaction to such an event evolved later.

Noun

kahır (definite accusative kahrı, plural kahırlar) (archaic)

1. (obsolete) violence, destruction
2. anxiety, distress, deep sorrow

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	kahır
Definite accusative	kahrı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kahır	kahırlar
Definite accusative	kahrı	kahırları
Dative	kahra	kahırlara
Locative	kahırda	kahırlarda
Ablative	kahırdan	kahırlardan
Genitive	kahrın	kahırların

Derived terms

• kahretmek
• kahrolmak

Related terms

• kahir (“overwhelming”)

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kahır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2335
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kahır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قهر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1502
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 581