سكیر

See also: سكير and سکیز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سكر (siñir), سینیر (sinir)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *siŋir (“sinew, tendon”); cognate with Azerbaijani sinir, Bashkir һеңер (heñer), Chuvash шӑнӑр (šănăr), Kazakh сіңір (sıñır), Kyrgyz сиңир (siŋir), Turkmen siňir, Uyghur سىڭىر (si'ngir) and Uzbek singir.

Noun

سكیر • (siñir) (definite accusative سكیری (siñiri), plural سكیرلر (siñirler))

1. tendon, sinew, a fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment

   Synonyms: پی (pey), طنب (tunub), عصب (ʿasab), كرش (kiriş)

2. (physiology) nerve, a bundle of neurons that transmits electrical impulses all over the body

   Synonym: عصب (ʿasab)

3. (psychology) nervousness, tension, the state or quality of being nervous or anxious
4. (botany) nerve, vein, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle

Derived terms

• آق سكیر (ak siñir, “white fibrous tissue”)
• اوكچه سكیری (ökçe siñiri, “tendon of the heel”)
• سكیر آغریسی (siñir aĝrısı, “neuralgia”)
• سكیر اوتی (siñir otu, “ribwort, ribgrass”)
• سكیر اوزامه‌سی (siñir uzaması, “relaxation of a nerve”)
• سكیر بوزان (siñir bozan, “a variety of oats”)
• سكیر چكلمه‌سی (siñir çekilmesi, “contraction of a sinew”)
• سكیرسز (siñirsiz, “without nerves”)
• سكیرلتمك (siñirletmek, “to make or let be deprived of tendons”)
• سكیرلمك (siñirlemek, “to hamstring”)
• سكیرلنمك (siñirlenmek, “to be hamstrung”)
• سكیرلو (siñirli, “provided with sinews”)
• صاری سكیر (sarı siñir, “nuchal ligament”)
• طوپوق سكیری (topuk siñiri, “tendon of the ankle”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sinir
• → Armenian: սինիր (sinir), սընըր (sənər)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “سكیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 89
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sinir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4254
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “سكر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 272a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سكیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 687
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Nervus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1134
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سكر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2640
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sinir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سكیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1068