تباشیر

Ottoman Turkish

تباشیرلر

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian تباشیر (tebâšir, “chalk, clay; bamboo sugar”), ultimately from Sanskrit तवक्षीर (tavakṣīra, “tabasheer”).

Alternative forms

• تبشیر (tebeşir)
• թէպէշիր (tebeşir) — Armeno-Turkish

Noun

تباشیر • (tebâşir or tebeşir) (definite accusative تباشیری (tebeşiri), plural تباشیرلر (tebeşirler))

1. tabasheer, a translucent, white substance obtained from the nodal joints of some species of bamboo
2. chalk, a piece of chalk or processed gypsum that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard

Derived terms

• اكمكجی تباشیری (ekmekci tebeşiri, “baker's score”)
• تباشیر تخته‌سی (tebeşir tahtası, “blackboard”)
• تباشیرلو (tebeşirli, “marked with chalk”)
• تباشیره پنیر باقشلو (tebeşire penir bakışlı, “dumb, silly”, literally “who looks at chalk as if it were cheese”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tebeşir
• → Albanian: tebeshir
• → Aromanian: tibishire
• → Bulgarian: тебеши́р (tebešír)
• → Greek: τεμπεσίρι (tempesíri)
• → Romanian: tibișir

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تباشیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 437
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tebeşir1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4661
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تباشیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 144a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تباشیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 339
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Creta”, 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 301
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تبشیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1059
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tebeşir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تباشیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 483

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic تَبَاشِير (tabāšīr), plural of تَبْشِيرَة (tabšīra).

Noun

تباشیر • (tebâşir)

1. (uncountable) good news, glad tidings, something or someone pleasant, fortunate, or otherwise positive

   Synonym: مژده (müjde)

Descendants

• Turkish: tebaşir

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تباشیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 437
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tebaşir1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4659
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تباشیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 144a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تباشیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 339
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Evangelium”, 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^[8], Vienna, column 483
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تباشیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 1050
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تباشیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 483