دائره
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira).
Noun edit
دائره • (daire) (plural دوائر (devair))
- that goes round or surrounds; circle; circumference, ring
- department or subdivision of administration
- suite of apartments or offices
- figurative point or degree (of greatness, etc.)
- dayereh, tambourine
- (prosody) schedule of metres arranged in circular form
- calamity
Descendants edit
- 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 edit
- 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