بیراقدار

Ottoman Turkish

بیراقدار

Etymology

From بیراق (bayrak, “flag, banner”) +‎ ـدار (-dar).

Noun

بیراقدار • (bayrakdar)

1. flag-bearer, standard-bearer, a person who carries a flag or banner

   Synonyms: سنجاقدار (sancakdar), علمدار (ʿalemdar)

Descendants

• Turkish: bayraktar (see there for further descendants)
• → Albanian: bajraktar
• → Arabic: بَيْرَقْدار (bayraqdār)
• → Armenian: պայրախտար (payraxtar), բայրախտար (bayraxtar)
• → Bulgarian: байракта́р (bajraktár)
• → Macedonian: бајрактар (bajraktar)
• → Serbo-Croatian: barjàktār／барја̀кта̄р

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bayraktar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 513
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیراقدار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 301
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vexillifer”, 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 1750
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیراقدار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 982
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیراقدار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 419