تیمار
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
تیمار • (timar)
- care, nurture, provision
- a kind of Ottoman Empire fief granted by the Sultan to a spahi (سپاهی (sipahi)) in exchange for his cavalryman service and cultivated by villeins who leased it from him, timar
Derived terms edit
- تیمارخانه (timarhane, “hospital; insane asylum”)
- تیمارخانه‌جی (timarhaneci, “nurse”)
- تیمارلك (timarlik), same as تیمار (timar)
- تیمارجی (timarcı, “who has the right to receive a rent from a timar”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: tımar
- → Arabic: تِيمَار (tīmār, “timar”) – in Egypt and the Sudan in the 19th century tamar, meaning a hospital; now only تَمَرْجِيّ (tamargi, “medical orderly”)
- → Armenian: թիմար (tʻimar)
- → Bulgarian: тима́р (timár)
- → English: timar
- → Macedonian: тимар (timar)
- → Serbo-Croatian: tìmār / тѝма̄р
- → Spanish: timar
References edit
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تیمار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, columns 1508–1509
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “تیمار”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 334a
Persian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (tymʾl /tēmār/).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [teː.ˈmɑːɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰiː.mɒ́ːɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰi.mɔ́ɾ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | tēmār |
| Dari reading? | tīmār |
| Iranian reading? | timâr |
| Tajik reading? | timor |
Noun edit
تیمار • (timâr)
- care; nurture; provision
- c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels][2]:
- گروهی را سراییان می‌گفتند و پیادگان بودند از هر ولایتی آمده بودند و ایشان را سپاهسالاری باشد جداگانه که تیمار ایشان دارد و ایشان هر قومی به سلاح ولایت خویش کار کنند، ده هزار مرد بودند.
- gurōhē rā sarāyīyān mē-guftand u pīyādagān būdand az har wilāyatē āmada būdand u ēšān rā sipāhsālārē bāšad judāgāna ki tēmār-e ēšān dārad u ēšān har qawmē ba silāh-i wilāyat-i xwēš kār kunand, dah hazār mard būdand.
- One group was called the Sarāyīs. They were infantrymen who had come from every country, and they had a separate general who took care of them. Every nation of them fought with the weapons of their own country. They were ten thousand men.
- grief; anxiety
- (historical) timar (Ottoman land grant)