كلاپیر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كلپير

Etymology

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

كلاپیر • (kelepir)

1. steal (merchandise available at a very attractive price)

Descendants

• Turkish: kelepir
• → Albanian: qelepir
• → Armenian: քելեփիր (kʻelepʻir), քելեփուր (kʻelepʻur)
• → Greek: κελεπούρι (kelepoúri)
• → Laz: ქელეჶური (kelefuri)
• → Romanian: chilipir n

Further reading

• 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