Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Persian تیمار (timâr).

Noun

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تیمار (timar)

  1. care, nurture, provision
  2. a kind of Ottoman Empire fief granted by the Sultan to a spahi (سپاهی (sipahi)) in exchange for his cavalryman service and cultivated by villeins who leased it from him, timar

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: tımar
  • Arabic: تِيمَار (tīmār, timar) – in Egypt and the Sudan in the 19th century tamar, meaning a hospital; now only تَمَرْجِيّ (tamargi, medical orderly)
  • Armenian: թիմար (tʻimar)
  • Bulgarian: тима́р (timár)
  • English: timar
  • Macedonian: тимар (timar)
  • Serbo-Croatian: tìmār / тѝма̄р
  • Spanish: timar

References

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  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تیمار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, columns 1508–1509
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “تیمار”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 334a

Persian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (tymʾl /⁠tēmār⁠/).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? tēmār
Dari reading? tīmār
Iranian reading? timâr
Tajik reading? timor

Noun

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تیمار (timâr)

  1. care; nurture; provision
    • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma[2]:
      گروهی را سراییان می‌گفتند و پیادگان بودند از هر ولایتی آمده بودند و ایشان را سپاهسالاری باشد جداگانه که تیمار ایشان دارد و ایشان هر قومی به سلاح ولایت خویش کار کنند، ده هزار مرد بودند.
      gurōhē rā sarāyīyān mē-guftand u pīyādagān būdand az har wilāyatē āmada būdand u ēšān rā sipāhsālārē bāšad judāgāna ki tēmār-e ēšān dārad u ēšān har qawmē ba silāh-i wilāyat-i xwēš kār kunand, dah hazār mard būdand.
      One group was called the Sarāyīs. They were infantrymen who had come from every country, and they had a separate general who took care of them. Every nation of them fought with the weapons of their own country. They were ten thousand men.
  2. grief; anxiety
  3. (historical) timar (Ottoman land grant)

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