قیصراق

Ottoman Turkish

قیصراق

Alternative forms

• قسراق (kısrak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïsrak (“young unprolific animal”) and thus related to قیصیر (kısır, “barren, sterile”); cognate with Azerbaijani qısraq, Karakhanid قِسْراقْ (qïsra:q), Salar qısıraq and Turkmen gysyrak.

Noun

قیصراق • (kısrak)

1. mare, an adult female of the species Equus caballus

   Synonyms: حجر (hicir), مادیان (madiyan), یوند (yund)

Descendants

• Gagauz: kısırak
• Turkish: kısrak
• → Armenian: խըսրախ (xəsrax), կըսրախ (kəsrax), ղըսրաղ (ġəsraġ)

Further reading

• Baskakov, N. A. (1991) İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 148
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kısrak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2637
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیصراق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 999
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Equa”, 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 472
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قیصراق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3694
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kısrak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیصراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1509