اگیر

Ottoman Turkish
اگیر

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian اگیر (agir), from Ancient Greek ἄκορος (ákoros).

Noun

اگیر • (eğir)

  1. sweet flag, Acorus calamus

Descendants
  • Turkish: eğir
  • → Belarusian: а́ер (ájer)
  • → Russian: аи́р (aír)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (√ اگیر اوتی (eğir otu))
    Cyrillic script: иђѝрот, ѝђирот
    Latin script: iđìrot, ìđirot
  • → Ukrainian: а́їр (ájir), а́єр (ájer)

References
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اگیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 807
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 29

Persian
اگیر

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄκορος (ákoros).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔä.ɡiːɾ], [ʔɪ.ɡiːɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔä.ɡiːɾ], [ʔɪ.ɡiːɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔä.ɡiɾ], [ʔi.ɡiɾ]

Readings
Classical reading? agīr, igīr
Dari reading? agīr, igīr
Iranian reading? agir, egir
Tajik reading? agir, igir

Noun

اگیر • (agir, egir)

  1. sweet flag, Acorus calamus
    Synonym: وج (vaj)

Descendants
  • → Kazakh: айыр (aiyr), иір (iır)
  • → Middle Armenian: ակիր (akir)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: اگیر (eğir), اگر (eğir)
  • → Uzbek: игир (igir)
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