اصر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِصْر (ʔiṣr).

Noun

اصر • (ısr) (plural آصار (asar))

1. duty, obligation, that which one is morally or legally obligated to do
2. onus, responsibility, burden, anything for which someone is held accountable

   Synonym: مسؤولیت (mesuliyet)

3. penalty invoked in an oath as the consequence of its nonfulfilment
4. (anatomy) ear canal, the meatus running from the outer ear to the eardrum

Descendants

• Turkish: ısr

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ısr”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2058
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ısr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 474
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pactum”, 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 1232
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اصر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 253
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اصر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 127