كرا
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- كیرا (worse)
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian کرا (kerâ), from Arabic كِرَاء (kirāʾ)
Noun
كرا • (kira)
- rent
Descendants
- Turkish: kira
- → Albanian: kira
- → Aromanian: chirie, chera, chira, cherao
- → Bulgarian: кирѝя (kirìja)
- → Georgian: ქირა (kira)
- → Greek: κιράς (kirás)
- → Macedonian: кирија (kirija)
- → Romanian: chirie
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кѝрија
- Latin: kìrija
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كرا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3898
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كرا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4112
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “ḱiríe”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 147