Ottoman Turkish

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خاویار

Etymology

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From Old Anatolian Turkish, from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr).

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Noun

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خاویار (havyar)

  1. caviar

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Persian

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Etymology

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Formed in another Indo-Iranian language, equivalent to the common Ossetian кӕф (kæf, fish) compounded with well-known Romani jaro which is with their usual prejotation and cluster reduction from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hāndrám (Sanskrit आण्ड (āṇḍa, egg)), so literally “fish-eggs”.[1][2]

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Noun

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خاویار (xâvyâr)

  1. caviar

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Szemerényi, Oswald (1967) “Славянская этимология на индоевропейском фоне”, in В. А. Меркулова, transl., Вопросы языкознания (in Russian), number 4, pages 24–25
  2. ^ Shukurov, Rustam (2016) The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 (The medieval Mediterranean; 105)‎[1], Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 325