كركف
Ottoman Turkish
editAlternative forms
edit- քէրկէֆ (kergef), կէրկէֆ (gergef) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
editFrom Persian کارْگاه (kârgâh, “workshop”).
Noun
editگركف • (gerkef)
- tambour, embroidery hoop, a circular frame for embroidery
- Synonym: قاصناق (kasnak)
- քէրկէֆ իշի ― kergef işi ― embroidery
- քէրկէֆ իշլէյէն ― kergef işleyen ― an embroiderer
- քէրկէֆ իշլէմէք ― kergef işlemek ― to embroider
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Turkish: gergef — dialectal
- → Albanian: gjergjef
- → Armenian: քերկեֆ (kʻerkef)
- → Bulgarian: герге́ф (gergéf)
- → Greek: γκεργκέφι (gkergkéfi)
- → Macedonian: ѓерѓеф (ǵerǵef)
- → Romanian: gherghef
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
edit- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كركف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1021
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كركف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1539
- Sōmalean, Sukʻias (1843) “քէրկէֆ”, in Hamaṙōt baṙaran i tačkerenē yangġiakan ew i hay barbaṙ [A Pocket Dictionary of the Turkish, English and Armenian Languages], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 195