باقر

Arabic

Root
ب ق ر (b-q-r)

Noun

بَاقِر • (bāqir) m

1. opener, gate

Proper noun

بَاقِر • (bāqir) m

1. a male given name: Baqir, Bagher
2. (defined) Muhammad al-Baqir (fifth Shia Imam)

Ottoman Turkish

باقر

Alternative forms

• باقیر (bakır), بقر (bakır)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bakïr (“copper”); cognate with Azerbaijani paxır, Bashkir баҡыр (baqır), Chuvash пӑхӑр (păh̬ăr), Kazakh бақыр (baqyr), Kyrgyz бакыр (bakır), Tatar бакыр (baqır), Uzbek paqir and Yakut баҕарах (bağaraq).

Noun

باقر • (bakır)

1. copper, a reddish-brown and malleable metallic element

   Synonyms: مس (mıs), نحاس (nuhas)

2. copper, a coin made of this material, typically of small denomination

Derived terms

• باقر طاشی (bakır taşı, “malachite”)
• باقر طوزی (bakır tuzu, “copperas, green vitriol”)
• باقر قاپلامق (bakır kaplamak, “to cover or sheathe with copper”)
• باقر پاصی (bakır pası, “verdigris”)
• باقر چالمق (bakır çalmak, “to affect food (of a copper vessel)”)
• باقراج (bakrac, “copper bucket, copper pot, copper cauldron”)
• باقرجی (bakırcı, “coppersmith”)
• باقرخانه (bakırhane, “manufactory of copperware”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bakır
• → Albanian: bakër
• → Armenian: պախըր (paxər), փախըր (pʻaxər)
• → Aromanian: bãcãri
• → Bulgarian: бакъ́р (bakǎ́r)
• → Greek: μπακίρι (bakíri)
• → Ladino: bakir
• → Laz: ბაქირი (bakiri), ბაკირი (baǩiri); ბაკკირი (baǩǩiri); ბაქიი (bakii), ბაქიჲი (bakiyi)
• → Macedonian: бакар (bakar)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ба̀кар

  Latin script: bàkar

  • → Slovene: báker

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bakır1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 442
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باقر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 244
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Æs”, 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 35
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باقر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 674
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bakır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باقر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 331