lškl

Middle Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrakš-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek-s- (“to protect”). Compare Sanskrit रक्षति (rakṣati).

Noun

lškl • (laškar)

1. army

Derived terms

• lšklyk' (laškarīg, “soldier”)

Descendants

• Persian: لشکر (laškar), لشگر (lašgar)
  • → Bengali: লস্কর (loskor)
  • → French: lascar
  • → Gujarati: લશ્કર (laśkar)
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: लश्कर (laśkar)
    • Urdu: لَشْکَر (laśkar)
      • → English: lascar
  • → Indonesian: laskar
  • → Middle Armenian: լաշքար (laškʻar), լաշքեար (laškʻear)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: لشكر (leşker)
    • Turkish: leşker
  • → Rajasthani: लसकर (laskar)
  • → Zazaki: lezkar
• → Arabic: عَسْكَر (ʕaskar)
  • Andalusian Arabic: عَسْكَر
  • → Classical Syriac: ܥܣܟܪ (ʿaskar)
  • → Kamviri: askar
  • → Persian: عسکر ('askar)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: عسكر (asker)
      • Turkish: asker
      • → Azerbaijani: əsgər
      • → Bashkir: ғәскәр (ğəskər)
      • → Armenian: ասկեր (asker), ասքար (askʻar), ասկյար (askyar)
      • → Bulgarian: аске́р (askér)
      • → Crimean Tatar: asker
      • → Greek: ασκέρι (askéri)
      • ⇒ Indonesian: laskar
      • → Kazakh: әскер (äsker)
      • → Kyrgyz: аскер (asker)
      • → Ladino: asker
      • → Laz: ასქერი (askeri), ასკერი (asǩeri)
      • → Malay:

        Latin script: askar

        Arabic script: عسکر

      • → Macedonian: аскер (asker)
      • ⇒ Northern Kurdish: leşker
      • → Russian: аске́р (askér), эске́р (eskér)
      • → Serbo-Croatian:

        Cyrillic script: а̏скер

        Latin script: ȁsker

      • → Tajik: аскар (askar)
      • → Tatar: гаскәр (ğaskär)
      • → Turkmen: esger
      • → Uyghur: ئەسكەر (esker)
      • → Uzbek: askar
  • → Polish: asker
  • → Swedish: askar
  • → Zazaki: esker
• → Old Armenian: լաշկար (laškar), ղաշկար (łaškar)
• → Old Georgian: ლაშქარი (laškari)
  • Georgian: ლაშქარი (laškari)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “laškar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press