The story
- Persian · derived fromـدار“bearer”
- Arabic · derived fromسِلَاح“weapon”
- Ottoman Turkish · borrowed fromسلاحدار
- English todayselictar
Corrupt from Ottoman Turkish سلاحدار (silahdar, literally “weapon-bearer”), the first part being the Arabic سِلَاح (silāḥ, “weapon”) and the second the Persian ـدار (-dâr, “bearer”) suffix.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.