قیصیر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • قصر (kısır), قصیر (kısır)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïsïr (barren, sterile) and thus related to قیصراق (kısrak, mare); cognate with Azerbaijani qısır, Karakhanid قِسِرْ (qïsïr), Kazakh қысыр (qysyr), Kyrgyz кысыр (kısır), Southern Altai кызыр (kïzïr) and Turkmen gysyr.

Adjective

قیصیر • (kısır)

  1. barren, sterile, infertile, unable to reproduce
    Synonyms: استرنك (isterenk), عقیم (akim)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Gagauz: kısır
  • Turkish: kısır
  • Armenian: խըսըր (xəsər)

Further reading

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