خرسز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From earlier ارسز (ʼırsız), before عرضسز (ʼırzsız), from Arabic عِرْض (ʕirḍ, “repute”) +‎ ـسز (-sız), through a contamination with خیرسز (hayrsız, hayırsız, “graceless, without good”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɯɾsɯz/

Noun

خرسز • (hırsız) (definite accusative خرسزی (hırsızı), plural خرسزلر (hırsızlar))

  1. thief, robber, burglar, one who steals another person's property, one who carries out a theft
    Synonyms: اوغری (oğrı), دزد (düzd), سارق (sârik)
  2. embezzler, peculator, a criminal who steals money or property they have been trusted with
  3. waster, thief, an imperfection or inequality in the wick of a candle, which causes it to waste

Derived terms

  • آت خرسزی (at hırsızı, “horse thief”)
  • خرسز آناختاری (hırsız anahtarı, “false key”)
  • خرسز فناری (hırsız feneri, “dark lantern”)
  • خرسز مالی (hırsız malı, “stolen goods”)
  • خرسز چكمجه‌سی (hırsız çekmecesi, “secret drawer”)
  • خرسز یاتاغی (hırsız yatağı, “den of thieves”)
  • خرسزلامق (hırsızlamak, “to steal, to embezzle”)
  • خرسزلق (hırsızlık, “theft, robbery”)
  • خرسزلو (hırsızlı, “infested with thieves”)
  • دكز خرسزی (deñiz hırsızı, “pirate”)
  • قره خرسز (kara hırsız, “night robber”)
  • پنجره خرسزی (pencere hırsızı, “shameless person”, literally “window thief”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: hırsız
  • → Albanian: arsëzë
  • → Bulgarian: харсъз (harsǎz), харсъзин (harsǎzin)
  • → Egyptian Arabic: خَرْسِيس (ḵarsīs)
  • → Greek: αρσίζης (arsízis)
  • → Romanian: arsîz
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: хр̀суз, хр̀сузин, харсуз, харсузин
    Latin script: hr̀suz, hr̀suzin, harsuz, harsuzin

Further reading

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  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “خرسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 695
  • Bittner, Maximilian (1900) Der Einfluss des Arabischen und Persischen auf das Türkische. Eine philologische Studie (Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften)‎[1] (in German), volume 142, number 3, Wien: In Commission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, page 106
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hırsız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1952
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “خرسز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 207b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خرسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 536b
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fur”, 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[4], Vienna, column 632
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خرسز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[5], Vienna, column 1881
  • Miklosich, Franz (1884) “arsız”, in Die türkischen Elemente in den südost- und osteuropäischen Sprachen (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Classe)‎[6] (in German), volume 34, Wien: In Commission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hırsız”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خرسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 839
  • Stachowski, Marek (2019) “hırsız”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 172
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