سکوره

Persian

Alternative forms

• سکره (sokkora, sokkara, sokra), سکرچه (sukarrača, sukrača), سکرجه (sukarraja, sukraja), اسکره (uskara, uskarra, uskurra), اسکوره (uskūra), اسکرچه (uskarča)

Etymology

Compare the Iranian loanwords: Classical Syriac ܣܩܪܩܐ (sqrqˀ), ܣܝܩܘܪܩܐ (syqwrqˀ /⁠sīqūrqā⁠/), Arabic سُكُرُّجَة (sukurruja), Proto-Slavic *skovorda and Old Armenian սկաւառակ (skawaṙak), the latter probably from earlier *սկաւար(ի)րակ (*skawar(i)rak), from Iranian *skavarid-ak containing the well-known suffix -ակ (-ak).

Probably borrowed from Ancient Greek σκευάριον (skeuárion, “small vessel”), from σκεῦος (skeûos). The Slavic and probably the Armenian reveal a form with a -d-, for which compare Ancient Greek σκευαρίδιον (skeuarídion, “small vessel”).

Noun

سکوره • (classical sukôra, iranian sokure)

1. earthen dish, saucer

Descendants

• → Cappadocian Greek: σκουρά (skourá)
• → Georgian: უსკურა (usḳura)
• → Gujarati: શકોરું (śakorũ)
• → Hindi: सकोरा (sakorā)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: êskere, uskere, sekre

• → Middle Armenian: ուսկուռայ (uskuṙay), ուսկուրայ (uskuray), սկուռայ (skuṙay)
  • Armenian: ուսկուրա (uskura), ուսկուր (uskur) (dialectal)
• → Ottoman Turkish: اوسكوره (üsküre)
  • Turkish: üsküre

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սկաւառակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 227ab
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سکره”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press, page اسکره
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien [Persian Studies] (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 169
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 237
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سكره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 688
• Szemerényi, Oswald (1991) Scripta minora. Selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin․ Vol. 4 Indo-European Languages Other than Latin and Greek, Innsbruck, pages 2185–2187