قرنابیت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • قرنبت (karnabit), قنبیط (kunnebit)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَرْنَبِيط (qarnabīṭ, “cauliflower”), itself from Ancient Greek κραμβίδιον (krambídion), diminutive of κράμβη (krámbē, “cabbage”).

Noun

قرنابیت • (karnabit) (definite accusative قرنابیتی (karnabiti), plural قرنابیتلر (karnabitler))

  1. cauliflower, a variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis)
    Synonym: قرنبهار (karnabahar)
  2. broccoli, a variety of cabbage whose large, tree-shaped flower and stalk are eaten as a vegetable (Brassica oleracea var. italica)

Derived terms

  • قرنابیت تراتوری (karnabit taratoru, “tarator with cauliflower”)
  • قرنابیت فیدنه‌سی (karnabit fıdası, “Brussels sprout”)
  • قرنابیت قلینه‌سی (karnabit kalyası, “fried cauliflower”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: karnabit
  • → Albanian: karnabit
  • → Armenian: կառնապիթ (kaṙnapitʻ)
  • → Bulgarian: карнаби́т (karnabít)
  • → Greek: καρναμπίτι (karnampíti), καρναμπίκι (karnampíki), κουνουπίδι (kounoupídi) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Northern Kurdish: kárnabit[1]

References

  1. ^ Stachowski, Stanisław (2004) “Türkische Lehnwörter im kurdischen Wörterbuch von P. Maurizio Garzoni (1787)”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia‎[1] (in German), volume 9, page 150 of 143–158

Further reading

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  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قرنابیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 510
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karnabit”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2443
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قرنبت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 362b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قرنابیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 956
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Brassica Cypria”, 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 126
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قرنبت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[5], Vienna, column 3678
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 31
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرنابیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1448
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