فندق قیران

Ottoman Turkish

فندق قیران

Etymology

From فندق (fındık, “hazelnut”), + قیران (kıran, “breaking, cracking”).

Noun

فندق قیران • (fındık kıran)

1. nutcracker, a tool designed to open nuts or similar fruits by cracking their shells

Descendants

• Turkish: fındıkkıran

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “فندق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 430
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fındıkkıran”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1577
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فندق قیران”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 912
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فندق قیران”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1398