خنزیر

See also: خنزير

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr, “pig, swine”), an old borrowing from Aramaic חֲזִירָא (ḥăzīrā, “pig, swine”).

Noun

خنزیر • (hınzır) (plural خنازیر (hanazir))

1. pig, swine, any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus

   Synonyms: خوك (huk), طوڭوز (doñuz)

2. (figuratively) pig, swine, a brutal, despicable, or disgusting fellow

Derived terms

• خنزیرلق (hınzırlık, “piggery”)
• خنزیره (hınzıre, “sow”)
• خنزیری (hınzırî, “swinish”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: hınzır

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hınzır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1948
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hınzîr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 431
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خنزیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 552
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sus”, 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 1637
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خنزیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1952
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hınzır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خنزیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 867