դայրա

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • դայիրա (dayira), դահրե (dahre), դըհարե (dəhare), դահիրա (dahira), դարյա (darya)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دائره (daire), from Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira).

Pronunciation

Noun

դայրա • (dayra) (dialectal)

  1. ward of a city
  2. dayereh, tambourine
    Synonym: դափ (dapʻ)

Declension

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “տայրէ”, 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, page 330
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “դահիրայ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “դայիրա”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 304b
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