# خاویار
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish, from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [xɑv.ˈjɑɾ]

### Noun

خاویار • (havyar)
* caviar

#### Descendants

* Turkish: havyar
* → Albanian: havjar
* → Middle Armenian: խաւիար (xawiar)
** Armenian: խավիար (xaviar)
* → Bulgarian: хайве́р (hajvér)
* → Italian: caviale
** → French: cavial
* → Medieval Latin: caviarium
* → Serbo-Croatian: àjvār / а̀јва̄р
* → Crimean Tatar: havyar
* → Venetian: caviaro
** → Dutch: kaviaar
** → Middle French: cavyaire
*** French: caviar
**** → Arabic: كَافِيَار (kāfiyār)
**** → Catalan: caviar
**** → Danish: kaviar
***** → Greenlandic: kaviaari
**** → English: caviar
***** → Korean: 캐비어 (kaebieo)
***** → Welsh: cafiâr, cafiar
**** → Estonian: kaviaro
**** → Faroese: kaviar
**** → Finnish: kaviaari
**** → Galician: caviar
**** → Icelandic: kavíar
**** → Norwegian Bokmål: kaviar
**** → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaviar
**** → Polish: kawior
**** → Portuguese: caviar
**** → Romanian: caviar
**** → Romansch: caviar
**** → Spanish: caviar
**** → Swahili: kaviar
** → German: Kaviar
*** → Czech: kaviár
*** → Hungarian: kaviár
*** → Macedonian: кавијар (kavijar)
*** → Serbo-Croatian: kȁvijār / ка̏вија̄р
*** → Slovak: kaviár

## Persian
### Etymology

Formed in another Indo-Iranian language, equivalent to the common Ossetian кӕф (kæf, “fish”) compounded with well-known Romani jaro which is with their usual prejotation and cluster reduction from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hāndrám (Sanskrit आण्ड (āṇḍa, “egg”)), so literally “fish-eggs”.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xɒːv(i)jɒːɾ/

### Noun

خاویار • (xâvyâr)
* caviar

#### Descendants

* → Byzantine Greek: χαβιάρι (khabiári), χαβιάριον (khabiárion), χαβάρα (khabára) (from 12th century)
** Greek: χαβιάρι (chaviári)
*** → Arabic: خِبْيَارِيّ (ḵibyāriyy)
* → Ottoman Turkish: خاویار (havyar)
** Turkish: havyar
** → Albanian: havjar
** → Middle Armenian: խաւիար (xawiar)
*** Armenian: խավիար (xaviar)
** → Bulgarian: хайве́р (hajvér)
** → Italian: caviale
*** → French: cavial
** → Medieval Latin: caviarium
** → Serbo-Croatian: àjvār / а̀јва̄р
** → Crimean Tatar: havyar
** → Venetian: caviaro
*** → Dutch: kaviaar
*** → Middle French: cavyaire
**** French: caviar
***** → Arabic: كَافِيَار (kāfiyār)
***** → Catalan: caviar
***** → Danish: kaviar
****** → Greenlandic: kaviaari
***** → English: caviar
****** → Korean: 캐비어 (kaebieo)
****** → Welsh: cafiâr, cafiar
***** → Estonian: kaviaro
***** → Faroese: kaviar
***** → Finnish: kaviaari
***** → Galician: caviar
***** → Icelandic: kavíar
***** → Norwegian Bokmål: kaviar
***** → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaviar
***** → Polish: kawior
***** → Portuguese: caviar
***** → Romanian: caviar
***** → Romansch: caviar
***** → Spanish: caviar
***** → Swahili: kaviar
*** → German: Kaviar
**** → Czech: kaviár
**** → Hungarian: kaviár
**** → Macedonian: кавијар (kavijar)
**** → Serbo-Croatian: kȁvijār / ка̏вија̄р
**** → Slovak: kaviár

### References

* ↑ Szemerényi, Oswald (1967) “Славянская этимология на индоевропейском фоне”, in В. А. Меркулова, transl., Вопросы языкознания (in Russian), number 4, pages 24–25
* ↑ Shukurov, Rustam (2016) The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 (The medieval Mediterranean; 105)‎, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 325