كرسته

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian کراسته (karāste, “ready, useful, working”), probably from the same root of كَردَن (kardan, “to do, make”).

Noun

كرسته • (kereste)

1. timber, any wooden material used in building

Derived terms

• كرسته‌جی (keresteci)

Descendants

• Turkish: kereste
• → Romanian: cherestea

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرسته”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 3899–3900
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kereste”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرسته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1539