كیرج

See also: كیرچ

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كرج (kirec), كرچ (kireç), كیرچ (kireç)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian گرچ (gerač, “lime”), from Aramaic גִּירָא (gīrā), from Akkadian 𒌋𒀜 (gīru, kīru, “kiln”), ultimately from Sumerian 𒌋𒀜 (gir, “kiln”).

Noun

كیرج • (kirec) (definite accusative كیرجی (kireci), plural كیرجلر (kirecler))

1. (chemistry) lime, any inorganic material composed primarily of calcium oxides and hydroxides used as a building material

Derived terms

• سونمش كیرج (sönmiş kirec, “slaked lime”)
• سونمه‌مش كیرج (sönmemiş kirec, “quicklime”)
• كیرج اوجاغی (kirec ocağı, “limestone quarry”)
• كیرج اولمق (kirec olmak, “to become as pale as lime”)
• كیرج سودی (kirec südü, “milk of lime”)
• كیرج سوندرمك (kirec sündürmek, “to slack lime”)
• كیرج طاشی (kirec taşı, “limestone”)
• كیرج كبی (kirec gibi, “deathly pale”)
• كیرج یاقمق (kirec yakmak, “to burn lime”)
• كیرججی (kirecci, “limeburner”)
• كیرجخانه (kirechâne, “lime depot”)
• كیرجلو (kirecli, “containing lime”)
• مرمر كیرجی (mermer kireği, “plaster”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kireç
• → Bulgarian: кире́ч (kiréč)
• → Laz: ქერეჭი (kereç̌i)
• → Macedonian: креч (kreč)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: кре̏ч

  Latin script: krȅč

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كیرج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 686
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kireç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2680
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كرج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 386b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كیرج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1066
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Calx”, 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 138
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3906
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kireç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كیرج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1610