𐰉𐰺𐰽 [bars]

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.

Language	Cognate
Turkmen	bars
Turkish (Azerbaijan)	-
Turkish (Türkiye)	-
Salar	-
Gagauz	-
Crimean	-
Uyghur	-
Uzbek	-
Kazakh	barıs
Nogai	-
Siberian Tatar	-
Kyrgyz	bars
Altai	-
Alan	-
Kumyk	-
Tatar	barıs
Bashkir	barıs
Tıva	par
Khakas	-
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan)	-
Khalaj	-
Chuvash	-

Examples

Irıq Bitig

4

Kül Tegin

1

Translations

German:

Leopard

Russian:

леопард

Turkish (Azerbaijan):

pars, bəbir

Turkish (Türkiye):

leopar

Академия (2016) Древнетюркский словарь p. 91

BARS I тигр: barsïɣ kökmäkig ölürmädim я не убивал тигров и ланей (E III0); ẹsnägän bars mẹn я – зевающий тигр (ThS II15).
♢ bars jïl календ. год тигра (по двенадцатилетнему животному циклу): ïnčïp bars jïlqa čik tapa jorïdïm после этого в год тигра я пошел в поход против чиков (МЧ В7); bars jïl [в] год тигра (ThS II103, USp 151).
☐ ср. bārs.
Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 368

F bars (p-) A very early Iranian l.-w., but from which Iranian language it was taken is uncertain. Properly ‘leopard’ but in Turkish apparently also used for other large felines. One of the animals of the 12-year animal cycle and so, at any rate in this context, an early l.-w. in Mong. S.i.m.m.l.g., but when, as in SW Osm., the form is pars no doubt a recent borrowing fr. Pe. and not a survival. Yolbars ‘tiger’, which s.i.a.m.l.g. except NE, SW, is a compound of yo:l, here metaph. ‘streak, stripe’, and bars. See Doerfer II 68₅. Türkü viii ff. bars yıl ‘the Leopard Year’ IrkB, Postscript; o.o. do. 10 (esne:-), 31 (3 eŋ), 49 (eŋle:-): Uyğ. viii bars yılka: Şu. E 7: viii ff. Man. Kutadmış Bars P.N. TT IX 11₄: Bud. bir tişi bars ‘a tigress’ U III 63, 4-5 etc.; Suv. 609, 17 (no doubt the only word available to translate Sanskrit ‘tigress’); Kutluğ Bars Tégin P.N. TT IV, p. 20, note B69: Civ. in the calendar texts TT VII 4, etc.; VIII P. bars is used both for the third of the ten ‘Stems’ (ping, Giles 9,29₅) and for the third of the twelve ‘Branches’ (yin, Giles 13,24₆); in USp. it occurs both in bars yıl and as an element in P.N.s: O. Kır. ix ff. (I killed seven wolves but did not kill) barsığ Mal. 11, 10; Küç Bars P.N. do. 14, 1; 17, 1: Xak. xi bars al-fahd ‘hunting leopard, cheetah’; bars ‘one of the twelve years in Turkish’; a long account of the twelve-year cycle follows; bars ‘any swelling (waram) on the body from the bite of a bug or flea or the appearance of an eruption’; one says anıŋ eti: bars boldı: tawarrama cilduhu ‘his skin was covered with swellings’ Kaş. I 34₄-8 (the last meaning presumably metaph. fr. the leopard’s spots): xiv Muh. sanatu’l-nimr ‘the leopard year’ ba:rs yı:l: Mel. 80, 19; Rif. 18₆ (al-nimr also means ‘tiger, panther’; al-fahhād ‘a man who hunts with hunting leopards’ pa:rscı: (sic) 58, 7; esri:ci: 15₇): Çağ. xv ff. bars ‘an agile (cahanda) animal rather smaller than a leopard (palang) which they tame and use like hunting dogs for hunting wild animals’, in Pe. yüz (‘cheetah’), in Ar. fahd San. 121r. 18 (quotn.): Kip. xiii al-fahd bars Hou. 11, 6; bars is also an element in several names of al-mamālik ‘Mamluks’ do. 29: xiv bars al-fahd Id. 30; al-fahd bars Bul. 10, 5: xv ditto Kav. 62, 6; Tuh. 27b. 13; Ak Bars P.N. do. 39b. 1.
Fikret Yıldırım (2013) Yenisey-Kırgızistan Yazıtları ve Irk Bitig p. 499

bars leopar (Kır, Mir), pars (yılı) (Yen); kişi adı (Yen, Kır)
Tekin (1993) Book of Omens

b(a)rs tiger, leopard