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

• аманат (amanat)