katır

Concepts

mule

hinny

Translations

Maultier

mulet

Maulesel

mule

mulo

mula

بغل

hêstir

mulo

bardot

بَغْل

qantirr

mūlus

μουλάρι

mul

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: قاطر

Cognate with Old Turkish:

Cognate with Kazakh: қашыр

Cognate with Kyrgyz: качыр

Cognate with Uzbek: xachir

Cognate with Azerbaijani: qatır

Cognate with Uyghur: خېچىر

Cognate with Romanian: catâr

Cognate with Persian: قاطر

In summary

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.