ҫар

Chuvash

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čērig (“soldier, army”).[1][2] Cognate with Turkish çeri. Compare also Hungarian sereg (“army”) a Bulgar borrowing.[3]

Noun

ҫар or ҫарӑ • (śar or śară)

  1. (military) army, troops

References
  1. Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “ҫар/ҫарӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 86
  2. Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “ҫар”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 203
  3. Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), volume II, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 716-719

Further reading
  • “ҫар”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎ (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
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