قرباچ

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïrmač (“whip, lash”), possibly from *kïr- (“to break”). The suffix may be cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (-maç) with onomatopoeic change to imitate a cracking whip.[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani qırmanc, qırmac.

Noun

قرباچ • (kırbaç) (definite accusative قرباچی (kırbaçı), plural قرباچلر (kırbaçlar))

  1. whip, lash, a pliant, flexible instrument used to direct and herd animals, or to strike a person as a punishment
    Synonyms: تازیانه (taziyane), سوط (savt), قامچی (kamçı)
  2. riding crop, horsewhip, quirt, any short type of whip without a lash used in horseriding to goad or direct a horse
    Synonym: سوط (savt)

Derived terms

  • قرباچ یمك (kırbaç yemek, “to be whipped, flogged”)
  • قرباچلامق (kırbaçlamak, “to whip, flog”)
  • قرباچلانمق (kırbaçlanmak, “to be whipped, flogged”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kırbaç
  • → Albanian: kërbaç
  • → Arabic: كِرْبَاج (kirbāj), كُرْبَاج (kurbāj)
  • → Belarusian: карба́ч (karbáč)
  • → Czech: karabáč
  • → German: Karbatsche
  • → French: courbache
  • → Hungarian: korbács
  • → Romanian: gârbaci
  • → Russian: карба́ч (karbáč)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Latin script: kòrbāč, krbač, grbač
    Cyrillic script: ко̀рба̄ч, крбач, грбач
  • → Spanish: corbacho
  • → Ukrainian: карба́ч (karbáč)

References

  1. ^ “kurbash”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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