# مرمر
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from either Persian مرمر (marmar) or Arabic مرمر (marmar), both from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros, “marble”).

### Noun

مرمر • (mermer) (definite accusative مرمری (mermeri), plural مرمرلر (mermerler))
* marble, a metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone
    Synonym: رخام (ruham)
* (by extension) slab, block, or object made of marble
* cement or plaster used as a last coating for inner walls

#### Derived terms

* آلاجه مرمر (alaca mermer, “streaked, variegated marble”)
* صو مرمری (su mermeri, “alabaster”)
* قایماق مرمری (kaymak mermeri, “white marble”)
* مرمر اوجاغی (mermer ocağı, “marble quarry”)
* مرمر ایلیكی (mermer iliği, “kind of soft carbonate of lime”)
* مرمر دلبندی (mermer dülbendi, “book muslin”)
* مرمر شاهی (mermer şahı, “book muslin”)
* مرمر صیواسی (mermer sıvası, “finest hard-finished stucco”)
* مرمر قازمق (mermer kazmak, “to engrave on marble”)
* مرمر كیرجی (mermer kireci, “lime from burnt marble, albarium”)
* مرمرجی (mermerci, “marble worker”)
* مرمرلك (mermerlik, “place paved with marble”)
* یشیل مرمر (yeşil mermer, “jade”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: mermer
* → Armenian: մէռմէռ (mēṙmēṙ)
* → Crimean Tatar: mermer
* → Macedonian: мермер (mermer)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ме̏рмер
    Latin script: mȅrmer

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مرمر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 753
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mermer”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3156
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mermer”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 743
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرمر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1152a
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Marmor”, 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 1012
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرمر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4583
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-05-04) “mermer”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-05-23
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرمر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1815

## Persian
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [maɾ.ˈmaɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäɾ.mǽɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäɾ.mǽɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäɾ.mǽɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäɾ.mǽɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mæɹ.mǽɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäɾ.mǽɾ]

### Noun

مرمر • (marmar)
* marble (stone)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: mərmər
* → Bashkir: мәрмәр (mərmər)
* → Karachay-Balkar: мәрмәр
* → Kazakh: мәрмәр (märmär)
* → Northern Kurdish: mermer
* → Nogai: мәрмәр
* → Ottoman Turkish: مرمر (mermer)
** Turkish: mermer
** → Armenian: մէռմէռ (mēṙmēṙ)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਮਰਮਰ (marmar)
    Shahmukhi script: مرمر (marmar)
* → Tatar: мәрмәр (märmär), märmär
* → Turkmen: mermer
* → Uyghur: مەرمەر (mermer)
* → Uzbek: marmar