قرباچ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Turkic *kïr- (“to break”) + the suffix which is in Old Turkic [script needed] (-maç). The phonetic alteration could have been in imitation of a cracking whip. In Azerbaijani qırmanc, qırmac.

Noun

قرباچ • (kırbaç)

1. whip, lash

Descendants

• Turkish: kırbaç
• → Albanian: kërbaç
• → Arabic: كِرْبَاج (kirbāj), كُرْبَاج (kurbāj)
  • → Tigre: ክርባጅ (kərbaǧ)
  • → English: kurbash
• → Belarusian: карба́ч (karbáč)
• → Czech: karabáč
• → German: Karbatsche
  • → French: cravache
    • → Italian: cravascia (semi-learned), → cravache (unadapted)
• → French: courbache
  • → Italian: curbascio (semi-learned)
• → Hungarian: korbács
  • → Polish: korbacz, karbacz
  • → Slovak: korbáč
• → Romanian: gârbaci
• → Russian: карба́ч (karbáč)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: kòrbāč, krbač, grbač

  Cyrillic script: ко̀рба̄ч, крбач, грбач

• → Spanish: corbacho
• → Ukrainian: карба́ч (karbáč)