كشیش

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian کشیش (kašiš, “priest”), which derives from Classical Syriac ܩܫܝܫܐ (qaššīšā).

Noun

كشیش • (keşiş)

1. (Christianity) priest, a religious clergyman who is trained to perform services at a church

   Synonym: پاپاس (papas)

2. (Christianity) monk, a male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service

   Synonyms: ابیل (ebil), راهب (rahib)

Derived terms

• كشیش طاغی (keşiş dağı, “Mount Olympus”)
• كشیشخانه (keşişhane, “monastery”)
• كشیشلك (keşişlik, “priesthood”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: keşiş
• →⇒ Armenian: Քեշիշյան (Kʻešišyan)
• → Bulgarian: кеши́ш (kešíš), ⇒ кеши́шин (kešíšin), Кеши́шев (Kešíšev)
• → Georgian: ქეშიში (kešiši) — Chveneburi
• →⇒ Greek: Κεσίσογλου (Kesísoglou)
• → Laz: ქეშიში (keşişi)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kèšīš, кѐшӣш

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “keşiş1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2578
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كشیش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 591b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كشیش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1030
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Secerdos”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1500
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كشیش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3971
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “keşiş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كشیش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1553