خاویار

Ottoman Turkish

خاویار

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish, from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [xɑv.ˈjɑɾ]

Noun

خاویار • (havyar)

  1. caviar

Descendants

Persian

Etymology

Formed in another Indo-Iranian language, equivalent to the common Ossetian кӕф (kæf, fish) compounded with well-known Romani jaro which is with their usual prejotation and cluster reduction from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hāndrám (Sanskrit आण्ड (āṇḍa, egg)), so literally “fish-eggs”.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xɒːv(i)jɒːɾ/

Noun

خاویار • (xâvyâr)

  1. caviar

Descendants

References

  1. Szemerényi, Oswald (1967) “Славянская этимология на индоевропейском фоне”, in В. А. Меркулова, transl., Вопросы языкознания (in Russian), number 4, pages 24–25
  2. Shukurov, Rustam (2016) The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 (The medieval Mediterranean; 105), Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 325
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