كربه

See also: گربه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian گربه (gorbe, “cat”).

Noun

گربه • (gürbe)

1. cat, a common house pet (Felis catus)

   Synonyms: پسك (pisik), قط (kitt), كدی (kedi), هر (hirr)

Descendants

• Turkish: gürbe

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gürbe1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1808
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “gürbe”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 357
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كربه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1019
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Felis”, 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 560
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كربه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3905
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كربه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1535