Also 7 teskeria, -caria, 9 -caré, tischera, tezkera, teskari. [Arab. taðkirah, in Turkish tezkere, lit. memorandum, record, note, f. ðakara, in deriv. conj. to record, relate, remember = Heb. zākar to remember.] A Turkish official memorandum or certificate of any kind; a receipt, order, permit, licence; esp. an internal passport.
1612. Coryat, in Purchas, Pilgrims (1625), II. X. xii. 1825. A Teskeria (this is a Turkish word that signifieth a Certificate written vnder his hand).
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 115. We could not passe without a Tescaria from the Cadee.
1817. By-Laws Levant Company, 26. That the Company’s privilege of having tescarés or certificates … be not forfeited.
1818. Blaquiere, trans. Pananti, xiii. 247. No [grain] can be exported without a tischera, or written permit, bearing the Dey’s seal.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Tescare, Teskere, a Turkish Custom-house certificate.
1890. Daily News, 30 June, 7/1. The Porte yesterday despatched a teskere to the … Armenian Patriarch, enjoining him to dissolve the Provincial Council of Van.
1904. Daily Chron., 13 Jan., 5/2. A tezkera or local passport costing 4s.
1905. Dundee Advertiser, 29 Nov., 11/1. The teskari or passport is an essential inexorably demanded by the Turkish official.
