كهربا
See also: کهربا and كهرباء
Gulf Arabic
Alternative forms
- كهربة
Etymology
From Arabic كَهْرَبَاء (kahrabāʾ)
Pronunciation
- (Kuwait) IPA(key): /kəhrəbə/
Noun
كَهْرَبا (kəhrəbə) f
- electricity
Derived terms
- كهربچي (kəhrəbci, “electrician”)
- كهربائي (kəhrəba.i, “electric, electrical”)
Ottoman Turkish
كهربا
Alternative forms
- كهربار (kehrübar, kehribar, keherbar), كهلبار (kehlübar, kehlibar) (Vulgar Turkish)
Etymology
From Persian کهربا (kahroba).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [cɛhɾyˈbɑ]
Noun
كهربا • (kehrüba)
- amber, succin
Descendants
- Turkish: kehribar
- → Albanian: qelibar
- → Armenian: քեհրիբար (kʿehribar), քյա̈րբա̈ր (kʿyärbär), քա̈հրըբար (kʿährəbar)
- → Aromanian: chihlibáre, chehribár
- → Bulgarian: кехлибар (kehlibar)
- → Greek: κεχριμπάρι (kechrimpári)
- → Macedonian: килибар (kilibar)
- → Romanian: chihlimbar
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ћилѝба̄р, ћирѝба̄р, ћелѝба̄р
- Latin: ćilìbār, ćirìbār, ćelìbār
References
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “986. ЌIHLIBÁRE”, 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во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 146