tərs
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Ultimately from Iranian,[1] such as Persian ترسا (tarsâ, “heretic; Christian or fire-worshiper”),[2] doublet of tərsa.
According to Doerfer, this is plausible because the oldest sense found in Turkic texts was in religious contexts, too.
Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (ters, “adverse; difficult”), Chagatai ترس, Turkish ters, Turkmen ters (“incorrect, uneven, inverse”), Bashkir тиреҫ (tireś, “north”), Kyrgyz тескей (teskey, “northern slope”), and Uzbek terskay (“northern slope; opposite”).
Also from Turkic: Mongolian тэрс (ters), Kalmyk терс (ters) (← Old Uighur), North Levantine Arabic ترس, Northern Kurdish ters (←Ottoman), Armenian թարս (tʻars) (←Ottoman/Azerbajiani).
Räsänen puts tärs together with forms belonging under Proto-Turkic *teŕ-, Common Turkic *tezek (“dung”),[3] which is probably incorrect.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
Adverb
tərs
- inside out (with the inside turned to be on the outside)
- back to front
- sideways, wrong, bad
- tərs baxmaq ― to look sideways, to look askance
Noun
tərs (definite accusative tərsi, plural tərslər)
Derived terms
References
- Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2015–) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 164
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20) (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 880, pages 474–475
- Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 476a
Further reading
- “tərs” in Obastan.com.