Arabic edit

Alternative forms edit

  • كُرْفُس (kurfus)hardly found in use, apparently original form obsolete by the time Arabic is usually attested

Etymology edit

From Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa, cotton).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

كُرْسُف (kursufm (plural كَرَاسِف (karāsif))

  1. (Classical Arabic) cotton
    Synonyms: قُطْن (quṭn), عُطْب (ʕuṭb)
    • a. 660, Labīd, unclear title:
      لَهَا غُلَلٌ مِنْ رَازِقِيّ وَكُرْسُف
      lahā ḡulalun min rāziqiyy wakursuf
      There are coverings of rāziqīy linen and cotton
    • a. 962, كشاجم quoted in Abū Hilāl al-ʕAskarī, ديوان المعاني [dīwān al-maʕānī]‎[1]:
      جنيُّ يومٍ لم يؤخر لغدِ … ولم ينقل من يدٍ إلى يدِ
      كالعقدِ إلا أنه لم يُعقدِ … أو كالفصوص في أكفِّ الخرَّدِ
      أو ككبار اللؤلؤِ المنضّد … في طيِّ أصدافِ من الزبرجدِ
      مفروشة بالكرسُفِ المُلَبَّد
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎[2], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 30 l. 16:

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Ancient Greek: γοσσύπιον (gossúpion)
  • Ottoman Turkish: كرسف (kırsef)

Further reading edit

Ottoman Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic كُرْسُف (kursuf, cotton or similar thing put in an inkholder; a menstrous cloth; a pessary).

Noun edit

كرسف (kırsef)

  1. cotton wool, raw fibers of cotton before being processed
    Synonym: پاموق (pamuk)

Further reading edit

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gossipium”, 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[6], Vienna, column 660
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرسف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[7], Vienna, column 3917
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرسف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1537b