كبریت
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic كِبْرِيت (kibrīt, “sulfur”), from Aramaic כִּבְּרִיתָא (kiḇrīṯā), itself from Akkadian 𒆠𒀀𒀭𒀀𒇉 (kibrītu, “sulfur, firebrand”).
Noun edit
كبریت • (kibrit) (plural كبریتلر (kibritler))
- (chemistry) sulfur, a chemical element with an atomic number of 16
- Synonym: كوكورت (kükürt)
- match, a device made of wood or paper which ignites through friction
Derived terms edit
- كبریت احمر (kibrit-i ahmer, “philosopher's stone”)
- كبریت اوجاغی (kibrit ocağı, “sulfur mine”)
- كبریت توتیا (kibrit-i tutya, “blende, sphalerite”)
- كبریت حامض (kibrit-i hamız, “sulfuric acid”)
- كبریت صویی (kibrit suyu, “diluted sulfuric acid”)
- كبریتجی (kibritci, “matchmaker”)
- كبریتلمك (kibritlemek, “to sulfurate”)
- كبریتلو (kibritli, “containing sulfur”)
- كبریتی (kibritî, “sulfuric”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: kibrit
- → Armenian: քիբրիթ (kʻibritʻ)
- → Bulgarian: кибрит (kibrit)
- → Laz: ქიფრიტი (kipriťi), ჩიპიტი (çip̌iťi); ჩირპიტი (çirp̌iťi); ჩიბრიტი (çibriťi); ქირპიტი (kirp̌iťi)
- → Macedonian: кибрит (kibrit)
- → Romanian: chibrit
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kibrit”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2666
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كبریت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 383b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كبریت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1009
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sulphur”, 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 1626
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كبریت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3864
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kibrit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كبریت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1522