قیصراق

Ottoman Turkish
قیصراق

Alternative forms
  • قسراق (kısrak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïsrak (“young unprolific animal”) and thus related to قیصیر (kısır, “barren, sterile”); cognate with Azerbaijani qısraq, Karakhanid قِسْراقْ (qïsra:q), Salar qısıraq and Turkmen gysyrak.

Noun

قیصراق • (kısrak)

  1. mare, an adult female of the species Equus caballus
    Synonyms: حجر (hicir), مادیان (madiyan), یوند (yund)

Descendants
  • Gagauz: kısırak
  • Turkish: kısrak
  • → Armenian: խըսրախ (xəsrax), կըսրախ (kəsrax), ղըսրաղ (ġəsraġ)

Further reading
  • Baskakov, N. A. (1991) İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 148
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kısrak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2637
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیصراق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 999
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Equa”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 472
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قیصراق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3694
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kısrak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیصراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1509
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