قیر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïr (“isolated mountain; steppe, wilderness”).

cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani qır, Bashkir ҡыр (qır), Chuvash хир (hir), Kazakh қыр (qyr), Kyrgyz кыр (kır), Turkmen gyr, Uyghur قىر (qir) and Uzbek qir.

Noun

قیر • (kır) (definite accusative قیری (kırı), plural قیرلر (kırlar))

  1. steppe
    Synonym: سته‌پ (step)
  2. wilderness, waste
    Synonym: یابان (yaban)
  3. countryside
    Synonym: كوی (köy)

Adjective

قیر • (kır)

  1. grey
    Synonym: بوز (boz)
  2. uncultivated

Derived terms

  • قیر سرداری (kır serdarı, “chief of rural police”)
  • قیر شهری (kır şehri, “Kırşehir, a city and province in Turkey”)
  • قیرچیل (kırçıl, “somewhat mixed with grey”)
  • قیراچ (kıraç, “uncultivated, left in fallow”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kır
  • → Armenian: խըռ (xəṙ), ղըռ (ġəṙ)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: kŕdža, кр́џа

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