zari
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
Alternative forms
Noun
zari (usually uncountable, plural zaris)
- A fine gold or silver thread used in traditional Indian, Pakistani and Persian garments, especially as brocade in saris etc.
Anagrams
Italian
Noun
zari m
Japanese
Romanization
zari
Latvian
Noun
zari m
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish زارع (zari), from Arabic زَرَعَ (zaraʕa, “to sow, cultivate”).
Noun
zari (definite accusative zarii, plural zürra) (obsolete)
- farmer (person who grows crops)
References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zari”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5437
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zürra”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5509
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زارع”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 638
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
Volapük
Noun
zari
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian noun forms
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Latvian non-lemma forms
- Latvian noun forms
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Arabic
- Turkish terms derived from the Arabic root ز ر ع
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns
- Turkish obsolete terms
- Volapük non-lemma forms
- Volapük noun forms