جزیره

See also: جزيرة and جزیرہ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَزِيرَة (jazīra, “island”).

Noun

جزیره • (cezire) (plural جزایر)

1. island, an area of land totally surrounded by water

   Synonym: آطه (ada)

Descendants

• > Turkish: cezire (inherited)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cezire”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 788
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “cezîre”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 170
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جزیره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 440
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Insula”, 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 835
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جزیره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1614
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جزیره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 660

Persian

Dari	جزیره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҷазира

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَزِيرَة (jazīra). Displaced native گنگ (gang), خوست (xast), آبخوست (âb-xast).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒa.ziː.ˈɾa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.ziː.ɾǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.ziː.ɾǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.ziː.ɾǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.zi.ɾǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæ.ziː.ɹé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.zi.ɾǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	jazīra
Dari reading?	jazīra
Iranian reading?	jazire
Tajik reading?	jazira

Noun

جَزیرِه • (jazire) (plural جزایر (jazâyer) or جزیره‌ها (jazire-hâ))

1. island

   Synonyms: گنگ (gang), خوست (xast), آبخوست (âb-xast)

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: जज़ीरा (jazīrā)

  Urdu: جَزِیرَہ (jazīra)