katır

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قاطر‎ (katır), from Proto-Turkic *katïr (“mule”).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (katır, “mule”), Kazakh қашыр (qaşyr), Kyrgyz качыр (kacır), Uzbek xachir, Azerbaijani qatır, Uyghur خېچىر‎ (xëchir), etc. Compare also Romanian catâr, Persian قاطر‎ (qâter); Turkic borrowings.

Noun

katır (definite accusative katırı, plural katırlar)

  1. mule

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants
  • → Romanian: catâr
  • → Zazaki: qatır
  • → Northern Kurdish: qantir

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*KAtɨr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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