نعلبر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نعلبر (na'l-bar, “farrier, horseshoer”), a compound of نعل (na'l, “horseshoe”) + بر (bar), present stem form of the verb بردن (bordan, “to bear”).

Noun

نعلبر • (naʼlbur or naʼlber)

1. farrier, horseshoer, a person who trims the hooves and fits the horseshoe

   Synonyms: بیطار (baytar), نعلبند (naʼlband)

Descendants

• Turkish: nalbur

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nalbur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3485
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “na'l-bur”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 961
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نعلبر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1280
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nalbur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نعلبر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2090