Where does “kısır” come from?
kısır (Turkish) comes from Arabic كسرة, from Arabic كَسَر, from Arabic س, from Arabic سَوْفَ — {{qualifier|future tense marker}}.
kısır (Turkish): sterile, fruitless, infertile
Definitions
- sterile, fruitless, infertile
Ancestry of “kısır”, step by step
kısır traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Arabic كسرة
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Arabic | كسرة | kasra; instance noun of كَسَرَ; fragment |
| 2 | Arabic | كَسَر | to break |
| 3 | Arabic | س | will |
| 4 | Arabic | سَوْفَ | {{qualifier|future tense marker}} |
via Ottoman Turkish قیصیر
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | قیصیر | sterile, barren, infertile, infecund, unable to reproduce |
| 2 | Old Anatolian Turkish | قصیر | infertile, barren |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | *kïsïr | infertile, sterile |
Words derived from “kısır”