كرسی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic كُرْسِيّ (kursiyy, “chair, seat”).
Noun
كرسی • (kürsi) (plural كراسی)
- (in general) seat, something to be sat upon, like a chair or stool
- throne, an impressive seat used by a monarch
- Synonym: تخت (taht)
- pulpit, a raised platform on which a speaker stands
- dais, a raised platform in a room for a high table
- base, pedestal, a supporting component of a structure
- Synonym: (pedestal) سكی (seki)
- (figuratively) centre of a government, whether a person or place
Derived terms
- كرسیسز (kürsisiz, “without a base or pedestal”)
- كرسیلو (kürsili, “standing on a base or pedestal”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kürsü
- → Armenian: քյուրսի (kʿyursi)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kürsi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2905
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كرسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1020
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sedile”, 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 1532
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كرسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3917
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kürsü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كرسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1540