غضنفر
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic غَضَنْفَر (ḡaḍanfar).
Noun edit
غضنفر • (gazanfer)
- lion, any large felid of the species Panthera leo
- (figuratively) lion, a strong, brave and valiant man
Descendants edit
- Turkish: gazanfer
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gazanfer”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1658
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “gazanfer”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 337
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غضنفر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 874
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Leo”, 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 934
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “غضنفر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3411
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غضنفر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1346