حشره

See also: حشرة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَشَرة (ḥašara, “insect”).

Noun

حشره • (haşere) (plural حشرات (haşerat))

1. insect, any arthropod in the Insecta class characterized by six legs

   Synonym: بوجك (böcek)

2. (colloquial) insect, bug, any small arthropod similar to an insect

   Synonyms: بوجك (böcek), هامه (hamme)

Descendants

• Turkish: haşere

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “haşere”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1892
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “haşere”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 402
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حشره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 508
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Insectum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 823
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حشره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1764
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “haşere”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حشره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 787

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَشَرة (ḥašara).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ha.ʃa.ˈɾa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.ʃä.ɾǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.ʃä.ɾǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ʃä.ɾǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ʃä.ɾǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.ʃæ.ɹé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.ʃä.ɾǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	hašara
Dari reading?	hašara
Iranian reading?	hašare
Tajik reading?	hašara

Noun

Dari	حشره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳашара

حَشَرِه • (hašare) (plural حشرات (hašarât) or حشره‌ها (hašare-hâ))

1. insect

Derived terms

• حشره‌شناسی (hašare-šenâsi, “entomology”)
• حشره‌کش (hašare-koš, “insecticide”)