فنر

From Ottoman Turkish فنار (fenar), from Arabic فَنَار (fanār), from Ancient Greek φανάριον (phanárion). Cognate with Gilaki فنار (fanár, “lantern”).

فنر (fenar)

1. lantern

• فنار (fenar)

From Arabic فَنَار (fanār), from Ancient Greek φανάριον (phanárion).

فنر • (fener)

1. lantern, a protective case for a flame or light

   Synonym: فانوس (fanus)

2. street lamp, any outdoor light used to illuminate a public area
3. lighthouse, a tower exhibiting a light to guide sailors
4. pinion of a shaft in machinery

• فنرجی (fenerci, “maker or seller of lanterns”)

• Turkish: fener
• → Albanian: fener
• → Armenian: ֆանար (fanar)
• → Aromanian: finere f
• → Azerbaijani: fənər
• → Bulgarian: фене́р (fenér)
• → Crimean Tatar: fener
• → Gilaki: فنار (fanár)
• → Macedonian: фенер (fener)
• → Mazanderani: فنر (fenar)
• → Persian: فنر (fanar), فنار (fanâr)
• → Romanian: fanar, fener, fânar, fănar
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: фѐњер

  Latin script: fènjer

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fener”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1559
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فنر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 911
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Laterna”, 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, Vienna, column 919
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فنر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3551
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fener”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فنر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1397

From Ottoman Turkish فنار (fenar), from Arabic فَنَار (fanār), from Ancient Greek φανάριον (phanárion).

• فنار (fanâr)

فنر • (fanar) (plural فنرها (fanar-hâ))

1. (obsolete) lantern

فنر • (fanar) (plural فنرها (fanar-hâ))

1. spring (device made of flexible material)