եսիր

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • յեսիր (yesir), յէսիր (yēsir), եսըր (esər), յէսըր (yēsər)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اسیر (esir, yesir), ultimately from Arabic أَسِير (ʔasīr).

Pronunciation

Noun

եսիր • (esir) (dialectal)

  1. prisoner, captive
    Synonym: գերի (geri)

Declension

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “յէսիր”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
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