# باقر
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baː.qir/

### Noun

بَاقِر • (bāqir) m
* opener, gate

### Proper noun

بَاقِر • (bāqir) m
* a male given name, Baqir or Bagher
* (defined) Muhammad al-Baqir (fifth Shia Imam)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* باقیر (bakır), بقر (bakır)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bakïr (“copper”); cognate with Azerbaijani paxır, Bashkir баҡыр (baqır), Chuvash пӑхӑр (păh̬ăr), Kazakh бақыр (baqyr), Kyrgyz бакыр (bakır), Tatar бакыр (baqır), Uzbek paqir and Yakut баҕарах (bağaraq).

### Noun

باقر • (bakır) (definite accusative باقری (bakırı), plural باقرلر (bakırlar))
* copper, a reddish-brown and metallic element with symbol Cu and atomic number 29
    Synonyms: مس (mıs), نحاس (nuhas)
* copper, a coin made of this material, typically of small denomination, such as a penny
    Synonym: باقر پاره (bakır para)

#### Derived terms

* اركك باقر (erkek bakır, “brittle copper”)
* باقر آوادانلق (bakır avadanlık, “equipment made of copper”)
* باقر تخته (bakır tahta, “copper leaf”)
* باقر طاشی (bakır taşı, “malachite”)
* باقر طاقمی (bakır takımı, “set of copper utensils”)
* باقر طوزی (bakır tuzu, “copperas, green vitriol”)
* باقر قاپلامق (bakır kaplamak, “to cover or sheathe with copper”)
* باقر پاره (bakır para, “coin made of copper”)
* باقر پاصی (bakır pası, “verdigris”)
* باقر چالمق (bakır çalmak, “to affect food (of a copper vessel)”)
* باقراج (bakrac, “copper bucket, copper pot, copper cauldron”)
* باقرجی (bakırcı, “coppersmith”)
* باقرخانه (bakırhâne, “manufactory of copperware”)
* باقركوی (bakırköy, “Bakırköy, a district in Turkey”)
* دیشی باقر (dişi bakır, “ductile copper”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: bakır
* → Albanian: bakër
* → Armenian: պախըր (paxər), փախըր (pʻaxər)
* → Aromanian: bãcãri
* → Bulgarian: бакъ́р (bakǎ́r)
* → Greek: μπακίρι (bakíri)
* → Ladino: bakir
* → Laz: ბაქირი (bakiri), ბაკირი (baǩiri) — Jigetore, ბაკკირი (baǩǩiri) — Ortaalan, ბაქიი (bakii), ბაქიჲი (bakiyi) — alternative spellings
* → Macedonian: бакар (bakar)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ба̀кар
    Latin script: bàkar
** → Slovene: báker

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “باقر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 272
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bakır1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 442
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “باقر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 104a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باقر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 244
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Æs”, 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 35
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باقر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 674
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bakır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باقر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 331