لشكر

See also: لشکر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian لشکر (laškar, “army”), from Middle Persian lškl (/⁠laškar⁠/). Doublet of عسكر (ʼasker, “army; soldier”).

Noun

لشكر • (leşker) (definite accusative لشكری (leşkeri), plural لشكریان (leşkeriyan) or لشكرلر (leşkerler))

1. army, a highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground operations

   Synonyms: اردو (ordu), جند (cünd), جیش (ceyiş), چری (çeri), عسكر (ʼasker)

Derived terms

• لشكر اولمق (leşker olmak, “to lead an army”)
• لشكر شكاف (leşker şikaf, “that breaks up armies”)
• لشكر شكن (leşker şiken, “who conquers armies”)
• لشكر كش (leşker keş, “general, captain”)
• لشكرگاه (leşkergah, “military camp”)
• لشكری (leşkerî, “pertaining to an army”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: leşker

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “leşker”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 318
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “leşker”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 656
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لشكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1077
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Exercitus”, 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 502
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لشكر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4170
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “leşker”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لشكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1632