Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Armenian խաթր (xatʻr), from Ottoman Turkish خاطر (hatır), ultimately from Arabic خَاطِر (ḵāṭir).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

խաթր (xatʻr) (dialectal, colloquial)

  1. recollection of a person or thing accompanied with love, respect, or veneration; one's sake or love
  2. one's feelings, frame of mind, health
  3. one's influence, consideration, weight

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Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “խաթր”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 156
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944) “խաթր”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 227bc