مقره

Ottoman Turkish

مقره

Alternative forms

• بكره (bekre), ماقاره (makara), مقاره (makara)

Etymology

Vulgarized form of earlier بكره (bekre), which was borrowed from Arabic بَكَرَة (bakara, “pulley, block”). For the change of initial consonant /b/ > /m/, compare منتشه (menteşe, “hinge”), منكشه (menekşe, “violet”) and میان (mıyan, “licorice”).

Noun

مقره • (makara)

1. pulley, block, one of the simple machines consisting of a wheel with a grooved rim

   Synonym: منجور (mencur)

2. bobbin, a spool or cylinder around which wires, threads, cables, or ropes are coiled

   Synonyms: استاج (istac), ماسوره (masura)

Derived terms

• مقره ایپی (makara ipi, “pulley rope”)
• مقره دلی (makara dili, “sheave of a block”)
• مقره زوانه‌سی (makara zıvanası, “axle of a pulley”)
• مقره صپانی (makara sapanı, “strop of a pulley”)
• مقره‌جی (makaracı, “maker or seller of pulleys”)
• مقره‌لو (makaralı, “furnished with pulleys”)
• چاتی مقره (çatı makara, “chevron”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: makara
• → Albanian: makara
• → Armenian: մախարա (maxara)
• → Macedonian: макара (makara)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “makara”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3026
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “مقره”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 455a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مقره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1209
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “pulley”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 437b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “makara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مقره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1944