كلار

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كیلار (kılar, kilar, kiler), كلر (kiler)

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek κελλάριν (kellárin), from Koine Greek κελλάριον (kellárion), from Latin cellārium.

Pronunciation

• (early Ottoman) IPA^(key): [kɯˈɫɑɾ]
• (U) IPA^(key): [ciˈlaɾ]
• (non-U) IPA^(key): [ciˈlɛɾ]

Noun

كلار • (kılar, kilar, kiler)

1. pantry, larder

Derived terms

• كلار آغاسی (kiler ağası, “head butler”)
• كلارلو (kilerlü, “butler boy”)
• كلارجی (kilerci, “sommelier”)
• كلارجیلك (kilercilik, “sommellerie”)
• كلار اوطه‌سی (kiler odası, “office of the pantry at the Palace”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kiler
• → Albanian: qilar
• → Arabic: كَرَار (karār) (from the form kerer)
• → Armenian: քիլէր (kʻilēr)
• → Bulgarian: киле́р (kilér), кила́р (kilár), киля́р (kiljár)
• → Macedonian: ќилер (ḱiler)
• → Romanian: chilér, chelér, chelár
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ћѝлер, кѝлер, кѝјер

  Latin script: ćìler, kìler, kìjer

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كلار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3990
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kiler”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “كلار”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 756