كرید

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • اكریت (igrit)

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).

Proper noun

كرید • (girid)

  1. 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