قیر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

See Turkish kır.

Adjective

قیر • (kır)

1. gray

Noun

قیر • (kır)

1. uncultivated area, wilderness
2. countryside

Descendants

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

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 997
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1505