زغر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

The origin is uncertain.

Noun

زغر • (zağar)

hound, hunting dog

Descendants

Albanian: zagar
Middle Armenian: զաղար (załar), զաղառ (załaṙ)
- Armenian: զաղար (załar)
Byzantine Greek: ζαγάριον (zagárion), ζαγάριν (zagárin)
- Greek: ζαγάρι (zagári)
Serbo-Croatian: за̀га̄р / zàgār
Turkish: zağar

References

Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869–1871) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 605b
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “zağar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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