# جسور
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1

* Root
* ج س ر (j s r)
* 3 terms

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒa.suːr/
* Rhymes: -uːr

#### Adjective

جَسُور • (jasūr) (feminine جَسُور (jasūr) or جَسُورَة (jasūra), common plural جُسُر (jusur), masculine plural جَسُورُون (jasūrūn), feminine plural جَسَائِر (jasāʔir))
* bold, daring; courageous
    Synonym: جَسْر (jasr)

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: cəsur
* → Northern Kurdish: cesûr
* → Ottoman Turkish: جسور (cesur)
** Turkish: cesur
** → Armenian: ճէսուր (čēsur)
* → Pashto: جسور
* → Persian: جسور
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: जसूर (jasūr)
    Urdu: جَسُور (jasūr)
* → Uyghur: جەسۇر (jesur)
* → Uzbek: jasur

### Etymology 1.2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒu.suːr/
* Rhymes: -uːr

#### Noun

جُسُور • (jusūr) m
* verbal noun of جَسَرَ (jasara, “to venture, to risk”) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒu.suːr/
* Rhymes: -uːr

#### Noun

جُسُور • (jusūr) m pl
* plural of جِسْر (jisr)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَسُور (jasūr, “bold, audacious”), a derivation from the verb جَسَرَ (jasara, “to dare”).

### Adjective

جسور • (cesur)
* bold, daring, audacious, temerarious, showing willingness to take risks

#### Derived terms

* جسورلق (cesurluk, “audacity, boldness”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: cesur
* → Armenian: ճէսուր (čēsur)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cesur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 783
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “cesûr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 167
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جسور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 441
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Magnanimus”, 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 984
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جسور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1617
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cesur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جسور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 662

## Pashto
### Etymology

From Arabic جَسُور (jasūr).

### Adjective

جسور • (jasur)
* bold, brave.

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَسُور (jasūr).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [d͡ʒa.suːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒä.suːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒä.suːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d͡ʒä.suːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d͡ʒä.suɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒæ.suːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒä.suɾ]

### Adjective

جسور • (jasur)
* bold, daring, brave, reckless (of a person)
    Synonyms: باجُرْأَت (bâ-jor'at), دَلیر (dalir), شُجاع (shojâ')
** 2024 May 1, “آخرین لحظات نیکا؛ مستند تحقیقی بی‌بی‌سی بر اساس اسناد محرمانه درباره کشته‌شدن نیکا شاکرمی”, in YouTube‎, BBC Persian:خیلی خیلی جسور و نترس بود.xeyli xeyli jasur o natars bud.She was very, very daring and fearless.

#### Derived terms

* جسورانه (jasurâne)

#### Descendants

* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: जसूर (jasūr)
    Urdu: جَسُور (jasūr)

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “جسور”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جسور (jasūr), from Arabic جَسُور (jasūr).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d͡ʒə.suːɾ/

### Adjective

جَسُور • (jasūr) (Hindi spelling जसूर)
* bold, brave
    Synonyms: ویر (vīr), شُور (śūr), سُور (sūr), بہادر (bahādur)

### Further reading

* “جسور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.