كلاپیر
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Compare Northern Kurdish kelep’ûr (“inheritance; anything acquired at no cost (e.g., as inheritance); anything acquired dishonestly at no cost”), Central Kurdish کەڵەپوور (kełepûr, “things left for relatives after the death of a relation; cheap, free (of charge)”). The /kele/ may point to a Kurdish origin, which is a prefix giving sense of maleness, (compare کەڵەشێر (kelleşêr, “rooster”), کەڵەگا (kellega, “stud; bully”), kelejin (“manly woman”)...), the /por//pûr/ may be in the sense of son (as it is in pispor, from Proto-Iranian *puθráh) giving the sense of inheritance left to a son.
Noun
[edit]كلاپیر • (kelepir)
- steal (merchandise available at a very attractive price)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kelepir
- → Albanian: qelepir
- → Armenian: քելեփիր (kʻelepʻir), քելեփուր (kʻelepʻur)
- → Greek: κελεπούρι (kelepoúri)
- → Laz: ქელეჶური (kelefuri)
- → Romanian: chilipir n
Further reading
[edit]- Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “kelep’ûr”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 2), volume II, London: Transnational Press, pages 385–386
- Dankoff, Robert (1991) An Evliya Çelebi Glossary: Unusual, Dialectal and Foreign Words in the Seyahat-name (Sources of oriental languages and literatures; 14)[1], Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, page 48
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kelepir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük