# تباشیر
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian تباشیر (tebâšir, “chalk, clay; bamboo sugar”), ultimately from Sanskrit तवक्षीर (tavakṣīra, “tabasheer”).

#### Alternative forms

* تبشیر (tebeşir)
* թէպէշիր (tebeşir) — Armeno-Turkish

#### Noun

تباشیر • (tebâşir or tebeşir) (definite accusative تباشیری (tebeşiri), plural تباشیرلر (tebeşirler))
* tabasheer, a translucent, white substance obtained from the nodal joints of some species of bamboo
* chalk, a piece of chalk or processed gypsum that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard

##### Derived terms

* اكمكجی تباشیری (ekmekci tebeşiri, “baker's score”)
* تباشیر تخته‌سی (tebeşir tahtası, “blackboard”)
* تباشیرلو (tebeşirli, “marked with chalk”)
* تباشیره پنیر باقشلو (tebeşire penir bakışlı, “dumb, silly”, literally “who looks at chalk as if it were cheese”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: tebeşir
* → Albanian: tebeshir
* → Aromanian: tibishire
* → Bulgarian: тебеши́р (tebešír)
* → Greek: τεμπεσίρι (tempesíri)
* → Romanian: tibișir

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تباشیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 437
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tebeşir1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4661
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تباشیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 144a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تباشیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 339
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Creta”, 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 301
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تبشیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1059
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tebeşir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تباشیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 483

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic تَبَاشِير (tabāšīr), plural of تَبْشِيرَة (tabšīra).

#### Noun

تباشیر • (tebâşir)
* (uncountable) good news, glad tidings, something or someone pleasant, fortunate, or otherwise positive
    Synonym: مژده (müjde)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: tebaşir

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تباشیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 437
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tebaşir1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4659
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تباشیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 144a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تباشیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 339
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Evangelium”, 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 483
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تباشیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1050
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تباشیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 483