كرید
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- اكریت (igrit)
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).
Proper noun
كرید • (girid)
- Crete (an island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece)
Derived terms
- كرید آغاجی (kirid ağacı, “fraxinella”)
- كرید اوتی (kirid otu, “dittany of Crete”)
- كرید لادنی (kirid ladeni, “resin of the rockrose”)
- كرید لالهسی (kirid lalesi, “garden ranunculus”)
- كریدلو (giridli, “Cretan”)
- كریدی (giridî, “Cretan”)
Descendants
- Turkish: Girit
- → Armenian: Կիրիտ (Kirit)
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كرید”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 626
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كرید”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1023
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Creta”, 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[2], Vienna, column 301
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرید”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 3935
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرید”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1543
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Girit”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][5], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 291