ясырь

Russian

Etymology

Via Crimean Tatar esir (“captive, prisoner”) or Ottoman Turkish اسیر (esir, “captive, prisoner”) from Arabic أَسِير (ʔasīr, “captive, prisoner”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [(j)ɪˈsɨrʲ]

Noun

ясы́рь • (jasýrʹ) m anim (genitive ясыря́, nominative plural ясыри́, genitive plural ясыре́й)

  1. (historical) a prisoner taken by Turks or Crimean Tatars (or, rarely, Cossacks during the colonization of Siberia) after a raid (from the fifteenth up to the eighteenth century)

Declension

Declension of ясы́рь (anim masc-form soft-stem accent-b) 
singular plural
nominative ясы́рь
jasýrʹ 		ясыри́
jasyrí
genitive ясыря́
jasyrjá 		ясыре́й
jasyréj
dative ясырю́
jasyrjú 		ясыря́м
jasyrjám
accusative ясыря́
jasyrjá 		ясыре́й
jasyréj
instrumental ясырём
jasyrjóm 		ясыря́ми
jasyrjámi
prepositional ясыре́
jasyré 		ясыря́х
jasyrjáx

See also

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