سپر

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See also: ستر, سبز, and شتر

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Persian سپر (separ, shield).

Noun

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سپر (siper)

  1. shield, a broad piece of defensive armor held in hand
    Synonyms: ترس (türs), درقه (daraka), قلقان (kalkan)
  2. shield, anything that acts as a protection, or guard
  3. (printing) side smudge of ink made by type

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: siper
  • Armenian: սիփեր (sipʻer)

Further reading

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سپر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 664
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scutum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[2], Vienna, column 1526
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سپر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, columns 2537–2538
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سپر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1037

Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian spl (spar, shield), from Old Persian *𐎿𐎱𐎼 (spara-). Akin to Old Armenian ասպար (aspar), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? sipar
Dari reading? sipar
Iranian reading? separ
Tajik reading? sipar
  • Audio (Iran):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ar

Noun

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Dari سپر
Iranian Persian
Tajik сипар

سپر (separ) (plural سپرها (separ-hâ))

  1. shield
  2. bumper (of a car)

Derived terms

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