كرپدن

Ottoman Turkish

كرپدن

Etymology

A vulgarization of Arabic كَلْبَتَانِ (kalbatāni, “tongs, pincers”).

Noun

كرپدن • (kerpeden)

1. pincers, nipper, a gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws

Descendants

• Turkish: kerpeten

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kerpeten”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2561
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كرپدن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1019
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kerpeten”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرپدن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1537