pınar

From Late-Ottoman Turkish پیكار‎ (puñar, pıñar), from Ottoman Turkish بوكار‎ (buñar, “fountain, spring; wellhead”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (bïŋar, “spring”), from Proto-Turkic *bïŋar. Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (mïŋar, “spring of water”), Serbo-Croatian bunar (“well”) an Ottoman borrowing.

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pınar (definite accusative pınarı, plural pınarlar)

1. spring, fountain, fount

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• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “bıŋa:r”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 351