kerindi

Turkish

Alternative forms

• gerenti, kerendi, kerimti, kerinti, kerenti, kirinti, kerantı

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian գերանդի (gerandi) (Western Armenian pronunciation).

Noun

kerindi

1. (dialectal) scythe

References

• “kerindi”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 35