كرسف
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- كرسوف (kürsüf)
Etymology
From Arabic كُرْسُف (kursuf, “cotton or similar thing put in an inkholder; a menstrous cloth; a pessary”).
Noun
كرسف • (kırsef)
- cotton wool, raw fibers of cotton before being processed
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gossipium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 660
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كرسف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3917
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كرسف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1537b