صوپره

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سپاره (süpare), սիփարէ (sipare)

Etymology

From Persian سیپاره (sipare, “part of the Qur'an”).

Noun

صوپره • (supara)

1. (Qur'an) section of the Qur'an written separately for use as a reading book
2. primer, ABC book, any children's book intended to teach literacy and alphabet

Descendants

• Turkish: supara

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “supara”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4357
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “սիփարէ”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 416a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سپاره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 770
• Kʻiwpʻēlean, Ambrosios (1883) “սիփարէ”, in Erekʻlezuean baṙagirkʻ tačkerēn-hayerēn-gaġġierēn [Ottoman–Armenian–French Trilingual Dictionary]‎^[2], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 840a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوپره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190