𐰉𐰺𐰽

bars

Meaning:
leopard
This word is occasionally also used for other large felines.

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.
Language Cognate
Turkmen bars
Turkish (Azerbaijan) No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Turkish (Türkiye) No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Salar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Gagauz No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Crimean No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Uyghur No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Uzbek No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kazakh barıs
Nogai No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Siberian Tatar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kyrgyz bars
Altai No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Alan No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kumyk No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Tatar barıs
Bashkir barıs
Tıva par
Khakas No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Khalaj No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Chuvash No cognate has been entered for this language yet.

Examples

Irıq Bitig
4
Kül Tegin
1

Translations

German:
Leopard
Russian:
леопард
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
pars, bəbir
Turkish (Türkiye):
leopar

  • Международная Тюркская 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.
  • Fikret Yıldırım, Erhan Aydın, Risbek Alimov (2013) Yenisey-Kırgızistan Yazıtları ve Irk Bitig p. 499
    bars leopar (Kır, Mir), pars (yılı) (Yen); kişi adı (Yen, Kır)
  • Talat Tekin (1993) Book of Omens
    b(a)rs tiger, leopard
  • Gerard 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.