كرپی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *kirpi; cognate with Azerbaijani kirpi, Chuvash чӗрӗп (čĕrĕp), Kazakh кірпі (kırpı), Kyrgyz кирпи (kirpi), Turkmen kirpi and Uyghur كىرپە (kirpe).
Noun
كرپی • (kirpi)
- hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)
- porcupine (Hystrix cristata)
- porcupine-quill
- hedgehog-skin
- (military) cheval de frise
- Christmas rose (Helleborus niger)
Descendants
- Turkish: kirpi
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كرپی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1019
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Erinaceus”, 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 477
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كرپی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3905–3906
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kirpi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كرپی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1537