زره

Borrowed from Classical Persian زره (zirih).

• IPA^(key): /zɯɾɯh/
• (late and vulgar) IPA^(key): /zɯɾh/

زره • (zırıh, zırh)

1. armour

   Synonym: جبه (cebe)

   • 1894, “اختراعات و كسفیات [ihtira'at ve keşfiyyat, inventions and discoveries]”, in Nevsal-i Servet-i Fünun, page 28:

     آمریقا ماكنه مهندسلرندن بری شیقاغو سركیسنده تشهیر ایتمك اوزره بر ماكنه‌لی آدم ایجاد ایتمشدر. بو آدم اسكی اصولده شوالیه‌لر كبی معدنی زره كینمشدر.

     amerika makina mühendislerinden biri şikago sergisinde teşhir etmek üzere bir makinalı adam icat etmiştir. bu adam eski usulda şövalyeler gibi madeni zırh giyinmiştir.

     One of America's mechanical engineers invented a mechanical man to display at the Chicago Exposition. This man wore metal armor like old-fashioned knights.

2. coat of mail

• زرهلی (zırhlı, “armored”)

• Turkish: zırh
• → Armenian: զըրխ (zərx), զըռխ (zəṙx)
• → Crimean Tatar: zırh

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “زره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 644a

From Middle Persian [script needed] (zlyh /⁠zrēy, zrēh⁠/), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d- (“to sound, to ring”).

Compare Avestan 𐬰𐬭𐬁𐬜𐬀- (zrāδa-, “chainmail, linkings to armor”). Iranian borrowings include: Arabic زَرَد (zarad), Old Armenian զրահ (zrah), Old Georgian ზარადი (zaradi), Classical Syriac ܙܪܕܐ (zardā), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic זַרְדָּא (zardā).

زره • (zereh) (plural زره‌ها)

1. armour
2. coat of mail

• زرهپوش (zerehpôš)

• → Azerbaijani: zireh
• → Hindustani:

  Urdu: زره (zirih, zirah)

• → Malay: zirah
  • → Indonesian: zirah
• → Middle Armenian: զրեհ (zreh)
• → Ottoman Turkish: زره (zırıh, zırh)
  • Turkish: zırh
  • → Armenian: զըրխ (zərx), զըռխ (zəṙx)
  • → Crimean Tatar: zırh
• → Uzbek: zirh

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “زره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979), “զրահ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “zrēh”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press