ضمیر

See also: ضمير

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمِير (ḍamīr, “conscience; pronoun”).

Noun

ضمیر • (zamir) (plural ضمایر (zamair))

1. conscience, the ethical or moral sense of right and wrong

   Synonym: وجدان (vicdan)

2. (grammar) pronoun, a type of word that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase

Derived terms

• ضمیری (zamiri, “pronominal”)

Descendants

• Turkish: zamir

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zamir2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5431
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “zamîr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1403
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ضمیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 786a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Conscientia”, 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 250
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ضمیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3052
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zamir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ضمیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1214

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمِير (ḍamīr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [za.ˈmiːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zä.míːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zä.míːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zä.míːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zä.míɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zæ.míːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zä.míɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	zamīr
Dari reading?	zamīr
Iranian reading?	zamir
Tajik reading?	zamir

Noun

Dari	ضمیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	замир

ضمیر • (zamir) (plural ضمایر (zamâyer) or ضمیرها (zamir-hâ))

1. (grammar) pronoun
2. mind
3. heart
4. secret

Descendants

• → Bengali: জমীর (jomir)
• → Gujarati: ઝમીર (jhamīr), જમીર (jamīr)
• → Punjabi: ਜ਼ਮੀਰ (zamīr)