قیران

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قیرـ (kır-, “to break, crack; decimate”) +‎ ـان (-an).

Adjective

قیران • (kıran)

1. breaking, fracturing, cracking, that breaks, fractures, or cracks
2. decimating, massacring, devastating, that decimates, massacres, or devastates

Derived terms

• صاچ قیران (saç kıran, “ringworm”)
• قایش قیران (kayış kıran, “restharrow”)

 

Noun

قیران • (kıran) (definite accusative قیرانی (kıranı), plural قیرانلر (kıranlar))

1. murrain, epizootic, any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle

   Synonym: موتان (mutan)

Descendants

• Turkish: kıran

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kıran1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2616
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیران”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 997
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیران”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1505