ясырь

Russian

Etymology

Via Crimean Tatar esir (“captive, prisoner”) or Ottoman Turkish اسیر‎ (esir, “captive, prisoner”) from Arabic أَسِير‎ (ʔasīr, “captive, prisoner”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [(j)ɪˈsɨrʲ]

Noun

ясы́рь • (jasýrʹ) m anim (genitive ясыря́, nominative plural ясыри́, genitive plural ясыре́й)

  1. (archaic) a prisoner taken by Turks or Crimean Tatars (or, rarely, Cossacks during the colonization of Siberia) after a raid (from the fifteenth up to the eighteenth century)

Declension

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