كرسته
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian کراسته (karāste, “ready, useful, working”), probably from the same root of كَردَن (kardan, “to do, make”).
Noun
كرسته • (kereste)
- timber, any wooden material used in building
Derived terms
- كرستهجی (keresteci)
Descendants
- Turkish: kereste
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كرسته”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3899–3900
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kereste”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كرسته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1539