See also: بیکار

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Persian پیکار.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

پیکار (peykâr)

  1. battle, war
    Synonyms: جنك (cenk), حرب (harb, harp), صاواش (savaş)

References edit

Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian ptkʾl (struggle, battle, dispute).[1] Compare Manichaean Middle Persian [script needed] (phykʾʾr, strife, battle), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌𐬀𐬐𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬀𐬊𐬝 (paitiakərənaot̰, he fought against).[2] Ultimately from the preverb *pati- and the root *kar- (to do, make).[3][4] Old Armenian պայքար (paykʻar) and Georgian პაექრობა (ṗaekroba) are Iranian borrowings.[3]

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? paykār
Dari reading? paykār
Iranian reading? peykâr
Tajik reading? paykor

Noun edit

پیکار (peykâr)

  1. battle
  2. struggle

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Middle Armenian: փայքար (pʻaykʻar)

References edit

  1. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 63
  2. ^ Bartholomae, Christian (1904) Altiranisches Wörterbuch [Old Iranian Dictionary]‎[1] (in German), Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, column 447
  3. 3.0 3.1 Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պայքար”, 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, pages 19–20
  4. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 236

Further reading edit

  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 80
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 220