كرسف
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Arabic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- كُرْفُس (kurfus) — hardly found in use, apparently original form obsolete by the time Arabic is usually attested
Etymology
[edit]From Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa, “cotton”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]كُرْسُف • (kursuf) m (plural كَرَاسِف (karāsif))
- (Classical Arabic) cotton
- a. 962, كشاجم quoted in Abū Hilāl al-ʕAskarī, ديوان المعاني [dīwān al-maʕānī][1]:
- جنيُّ يومٍ لم يؤخر لغدِ … ولم ينقل من يدٍ إلى يدِ
كالعقدِ إلا أنه لم يُعقدِ … أو كالفصوص في أكفِّ الخرَّدِ
أو ككبار اللؤلؤِ المنضّد … في طيِّ أصدافِ من الزبرجدِ
مفروشة بالكرسُفِ المُلَبَّد- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)[2], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 30 l. 16:
Declension
[edit]Declension of noun كُرْسُف (kursuf)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | كُرْسُف kursuf |
الْكُرْسُف al-kursuf |
كُرْسُف kursuf |
Nominative | كُرْسُفٌ kursufun |
الْكُرْسُفُ al-kursufu |
كُرْسُفُ kursufu |
Accusative | كُرْسُفًا kursufan |
الْكُرْسُفَ al-kursufa |
كُرْسُفَ kursufa |
Genitive | كُرْسُفٍ kursufin |
الْكُرْسُفِ al-kursufi |
كُرْسُفِ kursufi |
Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
Informal | كُرْسُفَيْن kursufayn |
الْكُرْسُفَيْن al-kursufayn |
كُرْسُفَيْ kursufay |
Nominative | كُرْسُفَانِ kursufāni |
الْكُرْسُفَانِ al-kursufāni |
كُرْسُفَا kursufā |
Accusative | كُرْسُفَيْنِ kursufayni |
الْكُرْسُفَيْنِ al-kursufayni |
كُرْسُفَيْ kursufay |
Genitive | كُرْسُفَيْنِ kursufayni |
الْكُرْسُفَيْنِ al-kursufayni |
كُرْسُفَيْ kursufay |
Plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | كَرَاسِف karāsif |
الْكَرَاسِف al-karāsif |
كَرَاسِف karāsif |
Nominative | كَرَاسِفُ karāsifu |
الْكَرَاسِفُ al-karāsifu |
كَرَاسِفُ karāsifu |
Accusative | كَرَاسِفَ karāsifa |
الْكَرَاسِفَ al-karāsifa |
كَرَاسِفَ karāsifa |
Genitive | كَرَاسِفَ karāsifa |
الْكَرَاسِفِ al-karāsifi |
كَرَاسِفِ karāsifi |
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 145
- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden[3] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 236
- Lagarde, Paul de (1889) Übersicht über die im Aramäischen, Arabischen und Hebräischen übliche Bildung der Nomina (Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen; 35)[4] (in German), Göttingen: Dieterichsche Verlags-Buchhandlung, page 114
- Plin. Nat. 19, 14
- Ullmann, Manfred (1959–1970) Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache. Band I (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 128
- Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy (a. 1229) Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, editor, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān][5] (in Arabic), volume 4, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1869, page 259 l. 19 claims a dialect form كُرْسُفَّة (kursuffa)
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- كرسوف (kürsüf)
Etymology
[edit]From Arabic كُرْسُف (kursuf, “cotton or similar thing put in an inkholder; a menstrous cloth; a pessary”).
Noun
[edit]كرسف • (kırsef)
- cotton wool, raw fibers of cotton before being processed
- Synonym: پاموق (pamuk)
Further reading
[edit]- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gossipium”, 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[6], Vienna, column 660
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرسف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[7], Vienna, column 3917
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرسف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1537b
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