Where does “افسر” come from?

افسر (Gawar-Bati) comes from Urdu افسر, from English officer, from Middle English officer, from Anglo-Norman officer, from Latin officiārius, from French officier, from German Offizier, from Old French officer — to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing.

افسر (Gawar-Bati): officer

Definitions

  1. officer

Ancestry of “افسر”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Urduافسرofficer
2EnglishofficerOne who has a position of authority in a...
3Middle EnglishofficerA hireling or subordinate; one employed to serve,...
4Anglo-Normanofficerofficer
5Latinofficiāriusofficer
6Frenchofficierto officiate; officer
7GermanOffizierofficer, commissioned officer; any chess piece...
8Old Frenchofficerofficer
9Medieval Latinofficiariusofficer
10Latinofficiumduty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory...
11Latinopificiumwork
12LatinopifexSomeone who does work (especially creative or constructive); worker, maker, framer, fabricator, workman, mechanic, artificer, craftsman, inventor, artist, artisan
13LatinOpsearth goddess, fertility deity
14Latinoscenany bird by whose song cries augurs divined...
15Latinopscen
16Latinob-towards; against
17Latinobolusobolus (Greek coin)
18Ancient Greekὀβολόςobol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and...
19Ancient Greekὀβελόςa spit, rod; a horizontal line
20Ancient Greekβέλοςmissile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly...
21Proto-Indo-EuropeangʷélHos
22Proto-Indo-EuropeangʷelH-to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing
Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʷelH-
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