خشر
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editخشر • (hışır)
- hard side of a fruit such as of a melon or cucumber
- unripe and thus hard fruit (in particular a melon or cucumber)
- Synonym: كلك (kelek)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: hışır
Further reading
edit- 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, , page 172b