افشره

Persian

Alternative forms

  • افشاره (afšâre)

Etymology

From a Middle Persian term also borrowed in Old Armenian օշարակ (ōšarak) and Arabic أَفْشُرَج (ʔafšuraj) composed *Habí- + the stem of the present verb فشردن (fešordan, to press) diminutive *-akah.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? afšara, afšura
Dari reading? afšura
Iranian reading? afšore
Tajik reading? afšura

Noun

Dari افشره
Iranian Persian
Tajik афшура

افشره • (afšore)

  1.  juice, pressed out sap
  2. (chemistry) extract

Descendants

  • Old Anatolian Turkish: افشره (äfşürä)

References

  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 259
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “افشره”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 113b
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