كریز

See also: گریز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

A variant of کاریز (kâriz, “qanat, karez”).

Noun

گریز • (giriz, geriz)

1. (informal) sewer, drain

   Synonym: لغم (lağım)

Descendants

• Turkish: geriz, keriz
• → Albanian: gjiriz
• → Armenian: կէրիզ (kēriz)
• → Bulgarian: гери́з (geríz)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “کریز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1023a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “کریز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1543a