آغر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آغیر (ağır)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *iagïr (“heavy”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰍𐰃𐰺 (ǧir¹ /⁠agïr⁠/), Azerbaijani ağır, Bashkir ауыр (awır), Chuvash йывӑр (jyvăr), Kazakh ауыр (auyr), Kyrgyz оор (oor), Southern Altai уур (uur), Turkmen agyr, Uyghur ئېغىر (⁧'ëghir⁩), Uzbek ogʻir and Yakut ыар (ıar).

Adjective

آغر • (ağır)

1. heavy, weighty, ponderous, having great weight

   Synonyms: ثقیل (sekil), گران (giran), وزین (vezin)

2. slow, not quick in motion, taking a long time

   Synonym: یواش (yavaş)

3. (of food) heavy, indigestible, difficult to digest
4. (of smell) foul-smelling, fetid, having an unpleasant odor
5. (of a person) grave, serious, sedate, not cheerful

   Synonym: دولك (dölek)

Derived terms

• آغر آغر (ağır ağır, “slowly”)
• آغر باصمق (ağır basmak, “to oppress, as a nightmare”)
• آغر دللو (ağır dilli, “foul-mouthed”)
• آغر هوه (ağır hava, “unhealthy air”)
• آغرجه (ağırca, “somewhat heavy”)
• آغرلتمق (ağırlatmak, “to make heavy”)
• آغرلق (ağırlık, “heaviness”)
• آغرلمق (ağırlamak, “to treat with marks of respect”)
• آغرلندرمق (ağırlandırmak, “to cause or allow to become sedate”)
• آغرلنمق (ağırlanmak, “to become heavy”)
• قولاغی آغر (kulağı ağır, “hard of hearing”)

 

Related terms

• آغرشاق (ağırşak) (?)

Descendants

• Turkish: ağır

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ağır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 136
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آغر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 49b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آغر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 23
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gravis”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 672
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آغر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 299
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ağır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 148