كورپه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *körpe (“produced late in the season; fresh, young”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani körpə, Karakhanid كُرْبا and Uyghur كۆرپە (körpe).

Adjective

كورپه • (körpe)

  1. (of crops or animals) produced late in the season, born late, or not yet grown or matured because of it
  2. (of plants or animals) young, fresh, born not long ago, at an early stage of existence or development
  3. (figuratively, of humans) fresh, tender, unpracticed, in a raw or untried state, young and inexperienced

Derived terms

  • كورپه میوه (körpe meyve, “late fruit”)
  • كورپه‌لك (körpelik, “freshness”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: körpe
  • → Armenian: քյոռփա (kʻyoṙpʻa), քէօրփէ (kʻēōrpʻē)
  • → Georgian: ქორფა (korpa)
  • → Mingrelian: ქვირფა (kvirpa)

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “körpe:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 737

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