انجیر

Ottoman Turkish

انجیر

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian انجیر (anjir).

Noun

انجیر • (encir, incir)

1. fig, the fruit of the tree Ficus carica

   Synonym: تین (tin)

Derived terms

• انجیر آدم (incir âdem, “prickly pear”)
• انجیر آغاجی (incir ağacı, “fig tree”)
• انجیر دلن (incir delen, “figpecker”)
• انجیر قوشی (incir kuşu, “figpecker”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: incir

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “incir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2172
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انجیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 154
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ficus”, 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 570
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انجیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 447–448
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “incir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انجیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 214

Persian

Dari	انجیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	анҷир

Etymology

From Middle Persian ʾncyl (anjīr, “fig”). Cognates found in Sogdian ʾncyr (anjēr) and Northern Kurdish hejîr. From the same Middle Iranian source, this word has been borrowed into Turkish incir, Russian инжир (inžir) and Sanskrit अञ्जीर (añjīra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔan.ˈd͡ʒiːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔän.d͡ʒíːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔän.d͡ʒíːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔän.d͡ʒíːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔän.d͡ʒíɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæn.d͡ʒíːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔän.d͡ʒíɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	anjīr
Dari reading?	anjīr
Iranian reading?	anjir
Tajik reading?	anjir

Noun

انجیر • (anjir)

1. fig

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: əncir, incir
• → Chechen: инжир (inžir)
• → Gujarati: અંજીર (añjīr)
• → Ottoman Turkish: انجیر
  • Turkish: incir
• → Russian: инжир (inžir)

Southwestern Fars

Noun

انجیر (anjir)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) fig

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ən.d͡ʒiːɾ/
• Rhymes: -iːɾ
• Hyphenation: اَنْ‧جِیر

Noun

اَنْجِیر • (anjīr) m (Hindi spelling अंजीर)

1. ficus (tree)
2. fig (fruit)