فرچه

See also: فرحة and فرجة

Ottoman Turkish

فرچه

Alternative forms

• فورچه (fırça, furça)

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek βούρτσα (boúrtsa), βούρτζα (boúrtza), via Vulgar Latin from Proto-Germanic *burstiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fɯɾˈt͡ʃɑ]

Noun

فرچه • (fırça)

1. brush, oblong bristle implement for cleaning

Derived terms

• دیش فرچه‌سی (diş fırçası, “toothbrush”)
• فرچه‌جی (fırçacı, “brossier”)
• فرچه‌لامق (fırçalamak, “to brush”)
• قیل فرچه‌سی (kıl fırçası)

Descendants

• Turkish: fırça
• → Arabic: فُرْشَة (furša)
• → Armenian: ֆռչա (fṙčʻa)
• → Bulgarian: ву́рча (vúrča), фу́рча (fúrča), фурча́ (furčá), фу́рца (fúrca)
• → Persian: فرچه (ferče)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fırça”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1577
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فرچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 891
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scopula”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1520
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فرچه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3490
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 46
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fırça”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فرچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1373
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “فرچه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 661a

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فرچه (fırça).

Noun

فرچه • (ferče) (plural فرچه‌ها (ferče-hâ))

1. shaving brush
2. brush (implement)