كرپی

Ottoman Turkish

كرپی

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kirpi (“hedgehog”); cognate with Azerbaijani kirpi, Bashkir терпе (terpe), Chuvash чӗрӗп (čĕrĕp), Kazakh кірпі (kırpı), Kyrgyz кирпи (kirpi), Turkmen kirpi, Uyghur كىرپە (kirpe) and Uzbek kirpi.

Noun

كرپی • (kirpi)

1. hedgehog, any small animal with a spiny back in the family Erinaceidae

   Synonyms: انقد (enkad), خار پشت (har puşt), قنفذ (kunfuz)

2. porcupine, any rodent with sharp quills in the family Hystricidae

   Synonym: تشی (teşi)

3. (by extension) quill, any thorn-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine
4. (military) cheval de frise, an obstacle made of wood with spikes
5. Christmas rose, any perennial flowering plant of the species Helleborus niger

Descendants

• Turkish: kirpi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kirpi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2685
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كرپی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 386b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كرپی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1019
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Erinaceus”, 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 477
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرپی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 3905–3906
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kirpi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرپی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1535