پیره

Ottoman Turkish

پیره

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bürge (“flea”); cognate with Azerbaijani birə, Bashkir бөрсә (börsə), Kazakh бүрге (bürge), Kyrgyz [script needed] (bürgö), Turkmen büre, Uyghur بۈرگە (bürge) and Uzbek burga.

Noun

پیره • (pire) (definite accusative پیره‌یی (pireyi), plural پیره‌لر (pireler))

1. flea, any small, parasitic insect in the order Siphonaptera

   Synonyms: برغوث (burgus), كیك (keyk)

2. aphid, any sap-sucking insect in the superfamily Aphidoidea

   Synonym: یپراق بتی (yaprak biti)

Derived terms

• پیره اوتی (pire otu, “fleabane”)
• پیره كبی صیچرامق (pire gibi sıçramak, “to be alive and kicking”, literally “to jump like a flea”)
• پیره‌لندرمك (pirelendirmek, “to make or let become a flea”)
• پیره‌لنمك (pirelenmek, “to become a flea or aphyd”)
• پیره‌لی (pireli, “affected by fleas”)
• پیره‌یی نعللامق (pireyi naʼllamak, “to attempt the impossible”, literally “to shoe a flea”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: pirä
• Turkish: pire
• → Armenian: փիրէ (pʻirē)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پیره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 423
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pire”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3858
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پیره”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 138b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پیره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 331
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulex”, 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 1404
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پیره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 986
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pire”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پیره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 463