منشار

Arabic

Etymology

Tool noun from نَشَرَ (našara, “to spread; to saw”), from the root ن ش ر (n-š-r).

Cognate with Hebrew מסור (masór).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min.ʃaːr/
  • (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /mun.ʃaːr/, /man.ʃaːr/

Noun

مِنْشَار • (minšār) m (plural مَنَاشِير (manāšīr))

1. saw
2. a spot where fruits like raisins or figs are spread to dry
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 16, page 666 line 3 et 5 a fine:

     ويضم الزبيب اليابس واليين اليابس من المنشار بالغدوات وهو بارد من هواء الليل ونداية وإن غطي الزبيب والتين وهما في المنشار بالليل قبل أن ينبا بحصر نظاف من بردي وشبهه وكشفا للشمس بالنهار أسرع لذلك يبسهما وكذلك إن فرشا في أرض مبورة

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   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 16, page 669 line 13:

     ويجمع التين إذا سقط في الأرض بعد تناهي نضجه ويفرش على رتم أو ديس يابس وييبس للشمس نعما ويترك إذا يبس ليلة منشورا للندى ويرفع من الغد فبل طلوع الشمس وفيه ندوة الليل وبرودة الهواء ويستر بعد ذلك عن الشمس ويتحفظ من الندى في البيوت وإن اختزن في ظروف فخار فيرفع من المنشار وفيه رطوبة يسيرة

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3. (obsolete) winnowing fan

   Synonym: مِنْسَف (minsaf)

Declension

Declension of noun مِنْشَار (minšār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِنْشَار minšār	الْمِنْشَار al-minšār	مِنْشَار minšār
Nominative	مِنْشَارٌ minšārun	الْمِنْشَارُ al-minšāru	مِنْشَارُ minšāru
Accusative	مِنْشَارًا minšāran	الْمِنْشَارَ al-minšāra	مِنْشَارَ minšāra
Genitive	مِنْشَارٍ minšārin	الْمِنْشَارِ al-minšāri	مِنْشَارِ minšāri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِنْشَارَيْن minšārayn	الْمِنْشَارَيْن al-minšārayn	مِنْشَارَيْ minšāray
Nominative	مِنْشَارَانِ minšārāni	الْمِنْشَارَانِ al-minšārāni	مِنْشَارَا minšārā
Accusative	مِنْشَارَيْنِ minšārayni	الْمِنْشَارَيْنِ al-minšārayni	مِنْشَارَيْ minšāray
Genitive	مِنْشَارَيْنِ minšārayni	الْمِنْشَارَيْنِ al-minšārayni	مِنْشَارَيْ minšāray
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَنَاشِير manāšīr	الْمَنَاشِير al-manāšīr	مَنَاشِير manāšīr
Nominative	مَنَاشِيرُ manāšīru	الْمَنَاشِيرُ al-manāšīru	مَنَاشِيرُ manāšīru
Accusative	مَنَاشِيرَ manāšīra	الْمَنَاشِيرَ al-manāšīra	مَنَاشِيرَ manāšīra
Genitive	مَنَاشِيرَ manāšīra	الْمَنَاشِيرِ al-manāšīri	مَنَاشِيرِ manāšīri

Descendants

• Maltese: munxar
• → Azerbaijani: mişar
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: mişar

  → Central Kurdish: مِشار (mişar)

  → Southern Kurdish: مِشار (mişar)

• → Persian: منشار (menšâr)
• → Spanish: almijar
• → Ottoman Turkish: منشار (minşar)
  • → Turkish: minşar
• → Portuguese: almanchar, manchar, almênchar, almanxar, almeixar, almeixiar, almixar, almaxar, almexar
• → Sicilian: Muxaru
  • → Italian: Muxaro

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “منشار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 671b
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “منشار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 280b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “منشار”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1260a
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “منشار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2795b
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “منشار”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 1069
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “منشار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1133a
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “منشار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1274a

Moroccan Arabic

Root
ن ش ر
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic مِنْشَار (minšār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mun.ʃaːr/, /man.ʃaːr/

Noun

مُنشار or مَنشار • (munšār or manšār) m (plural مناشر (mnāšar))

1. saw

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِنْشَار (minšār, “saw; winnowing fan”).

Noun

منشار • (minşar) (plural مناشیر (manaşir))

1. saw, a tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances

   Synonyms: اره (erre), بچقی (bıçkı)

2. winnowing fan, a basket in which grain is shaken in order to remove the chaff

Derived terms

• منشاری (minşari, “saw-like, serrated”)

Descendants

• Turkish: minşar

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “minşar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3233
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “minşâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[7] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 777
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “منشار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[8], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1233
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Serra”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[9], Vienna, column 1547
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “منشار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[10], Vienna, column 4961
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “منشار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[11], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2002

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِنْشَار (minšār).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [min.ˈʃɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɪn.ʃɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɪn.ʃɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɪn.ʃɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [min.ʃɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [men.ʃɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [min.ʃɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	minšār
Dari reading?	minšār
Iranian reading?	menšâr
Tajik reading?	minšor

Noun

Dari	منشار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	миншор

منشار • (menšâr) (plural مناشیر (manâšir) or منشارها (menšâr-hâ))

1. (rare) saw

   Synonym: اره (arre)

2. (rare) winnowing fan
3. (rare) sawfish (Pristidae spp.)

   Synonym: اره‌ماهی (arre-mâhi)

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “منشار”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Mo'in, Mohammad (1972) “منشار”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir