ایغرب
Appearance
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Greek γρίπος (grípos) and γρίφος (grífos). Compare also Serbo-Croatian grȋb / гри̃б, a dialect term used at the lake Lake Skadar, in Turkish however also used at the Bosporus, where fishing was largely a Greek business.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ایغرب • (ıgrıb, ığrıb, ıgrıp, ığrıp)
- seine, a kind of fishing-net
- trick, ruse, stratagem
Derived terms
[edit]- ایغربجی (ığrıpçı)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: ığrıp
References
[edit]- Blau, Otto (1868) Bosnisch-türkische Sprachdenkmäler[1] (in German), Berlin: F. A. Brockhaus, page 39
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “ایغرب”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 148c