From Ottoman Turkish قاطر (katır), from Proto-Common Turkic *katïr (“mule”), ultimately from Sogdian. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (katır, “mule”), Kazakh қашыр (qaşyr), Kyrgyz качыр (kacır), Uzbek xachir, Azerbaijani qatır, Uyghur خېچىر (xëchir), etc. Also see Romanian catâr, Tajik хачир (xačir), and Persian قاطر (qâter), which are Turkic borrowings.