Where does “تر” come from?

تر (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Persian تر, from Middle Persian tl' — wet, moist.

تر (Ottoman Turkish): sweat; used to imitate a tremble or...

Definitions

  1. sweat; used to imitate a tremble or...

Ancestry of “تر”, step by step

تر traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Persian تر

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianترmoist, wet; A suffix forming the comparative...
2Middle Persiantl'wet, moist

via Proto-Turkic *tẹr

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Turkic*tẹr—

Words derived from “تر”

Every word from Middle Persian tl' →Every word from Persian تر →