شریت

Ottoman Turkish

شریت

Alternative forms

• شرید (şerid), شریط (şerit), شیریت (şirit)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَرِيط (šarīṭ, “tape, ribbon, band”).

Noun

شریت • (şerit) (definite accusative شریدی (şeridi), plural شریتلر (şeritler))

1. tape, any thin and flat material produced in the form of a roll
2. ribbon, a long, narrow tape used for decoration of clothing

   Synonym: قوردله (kordela)

3. galloon, a braided trimming with bullion thread on men's coats

Derived terms

• شریت صوغلجانی (şerit soğulcanı, “tapeworm”)
• شریتجی (şeritci, “ribbon weaver”)
• شریتلمك (şeritlemek, “to tape”)
• شریتلو (şeritli, “furnished with a tape”)
• صرمه شریدی (sırma şeridi, “golden trimming”)
• مساحه شریدی (mesaha şeridi, “measuring tape”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: şerit
• → Albanian: shirit
• → Armenian: շէրիտ (šērit), շրիդ (šrid)
• → Pontic Greek: σ̌ερίτ' (šerít'), σ̌α̤ρίτ' (šärít'), σ̌ερίτιν (šerítin)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şerit”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4462
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “şerît”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1187
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شریت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 726
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tænia”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1647
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شریت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2808
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şerit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شریت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1124