zemheri
Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A vulgar form of Ottoman Turkish زمهریر (zemherir), from Arabic زَمْهَرِير (zamharīr).
Noun
[edit]zemheri
- intense cold; the depths of winter
- zemheri zürafası (jocular) ― one who wears very inadequate clothes in winter
- (dialectal) January
Descendants
[edit]- → Laz: ზემფერი (zemperi)
References
[edit]- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “zemheri”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1278a
- Kowalski, Tadeusz (1930) “Zu den türkischen Monatsnamen”, in Archív Orientalni[1] (in German), volume 2, pages 16–17