سپر

See also: ستر, سبز, and شتر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian سپر (separ, “shield”).

Noun

سپر • (siper)

1. shield, a broad piece of defensive armor held in hand

   Synonyms: ترس (türs), درقه (daraka), قلقان (kalkan)

2. shield, anything that acts as a protection, or guard
3. (printing) side smudge of ink made by type

Derived terms

• سپرجك (sipercik, “small shield”)
• سپردار (siperdar, “shield-bearer”)
• سپرلنمك (siperlanmak, “to become a shield”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: siper
• → Armenian: սիփեր (sipʻer)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سپر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 664
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scutum”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1526
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سپر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 2537–2538
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سپر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1037

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian spl (spar, “shield”), from Old Persian *𐎿𐎱𐎼 (spara-). Akin to Old Armenian ասպար (aspar), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [si.paɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɪ.pʰäɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɪ.pʰäɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sɪ.pʰäɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [si.pʰäɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [se.pʰæɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [si.pʰäɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	sipar
Dari reading?	sipar
Iranian reading?	separ
Tajik reading?	sipar

• Rhymes: -ar

Noun

Dari	سپر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сипар

سپر • (separ) (plural سپرها (separ-hâ))

1. shield
2. bumper (of a car)

Derived terms

• سپردیس (separdis)

Descendants

• Urdu: سِپَر (sípár)

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سپر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سپر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “spar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 75