قارشو

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قارشی (karşı), قرشو (karşu)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karĺčï (“opposite”), a development of *kar- (“to disagree; to be opposite”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qarşı, Bashkir ҡаршы (qarşı), Chuvash хирӗҫ (hirĕś), Kazakh қарсы (qarsy), Kyrgyz каршы (karşı), Turkmen garşy, Uyghur قارشى (qarshi) and Uzbek qarshi.

Postposition

قارشو • (karşı or karşu) (with dative)

1. opposite, across from, facing
2. against, in contrast or in a contrary direction

Adjective

قارشو • (karşı or karşu)

1. opposing, opposed, antagonistic, acting in opposition

Noun

قارشو • (karşı or karşu)

1. opposite, a place or direction opposite to a person or thing
   • 1910 April 24, “دوقتور صوجیان [Doctor Sudjian]”, in Tercüman-i Ahval, page 4:

     هر كون صباحدن آقشامه قدر باغچه قپوسنده بیك بر چشید مغازه‌سی قارشوسنده میناسیان جزاخانه‌سنده بولنور.

     Her gün sabahdan akşama kadar Bahçekapısında "Binbir Çeşid" mağazası karşısında Minasyan cezahanesinde bulunur.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Turkish: karşı
• → Albanian: karshi
• → Bulgarian: карши́ (karší)
• → Macedonian: карши (karši)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karşı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2445
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قارشو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 349b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارشو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 924
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Contra”, 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 271
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قارشو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3580
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karşı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارشو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1410