See also: آره

Mazanderani

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Pronunciation

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Particle

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اره (are)

  1. yes

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian اره (arre, saw).

Noun

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اره (erre)

  1. saw, a tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances
    Synonyms: بچقی (bıçkı), منشار (minşar)

Descendants

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  • Turkish: erre

Further reading

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Persian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *sers- (to cut off). Compare Latin serra (saw) (whence English serra), Mazanderani هره (hare, saw), and Baluchi ہرگ (harrag, saw).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? arra
Dari reading? arra
Iranian reading? arre
Tajik reading? arra

Noun

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Dari اره
Iranian Persian
Tajik арра

اره (arre)

  1. saw
    Synonyms: منشار (menšâr), یوسه (yuse)

Descendants

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References

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  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “اره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 443