خشر

See also: حشر, خسر, and جسر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Armenian խշուր (xšur, “rinds and shells of eaten fruits and nuts”), which is related to Armenian խոշոր (xošor, “plump, rough, coarse”), also found as vernacular Turkish hışır, hoşor, hoşur (“plump, rough, coarse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɯʃɯɾ/

Noun

خشر • (hışır)

1. hard side of a fruit such as of a melon or cucumber
2. unripe and thus hard fruit (in particular a melon or cucumber)

   Synonym: كلك (kelek)

Descendants

• Turkish: hışır

Further reading

• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 66
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خشر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 541a
• Stachowski, Marek (2019) “hışır”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 172b