دائره

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira).

Noun

دائره • (daire) (plural دوائر (devair))

1. that goes round or surrounds; circle; circumference, ring
2. department or subdivision of administration
3. suite of apartments or offices
4. figurative point or degree (of greatness, etc.)
5. dayereh, tambourine
6. (prosody) schedule of metres arranged in circular form
7. calamity

Descendants

• Turkish: daire
• → Albanian: dajré
• → Armenian: դայրա (dayra), դայիրա (dayira), դահրե (dahre), դըհարե (dəhare), դահիրա (dahira), դարյա (darya)
• → Aromanian: daire
• → Bulgarian: дайре́ (dajré)
• → Greek: νταϊρές (ntaïrés)
• → Macedonian: дајре (dajre)
• → Romanian: dairea, daierea, daerea, daera, daira, dara
• → Serbo-Croatian: даире / daire

Further reading

• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “دائره”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 337
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دائره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 564
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دائره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 886