كرسی

See also: كرسي, کرسي, کرسی, and کُرسی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كُرْسِيّ (kursiyy, “chair, seat”).

Noun

كرسی • (kürsi) (plural كراسی)

1. (in general) seat, something to be sat upon, like a chair or stool
2. throne, an impressive seat used by a monarch

   Synonyms: تخت (taht), اَوْرَنْك (evrenk)

3. pulpit, a raised platform on which a speaker stands
4. dais, a raised platform in a room for a high table
5. base, pedestal, a supporting component of a structure

   Synonym: (pedestal) سكی (seki)

6. (figuratively) centre of a government, whether a person or place

Derived terms

• كرسیسز (kürsisiz, “without a base or pedestal”)
• كرسیلو (kürsili, “standing on a base or pedestal”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kürsü
• → Crimean Tatar: kürsü
• → Armenian: քյուրսի (kʻyursi), քուրսի (kʻursi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kürsi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2905
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كرسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1020
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sedile”, 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 1532
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3917
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kürsü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1540