كركف

Ottoman Turkish

گركف

Alternative forms

• քէրկէֆ (kergef), կէրկէֆ (gergef) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Persian کارْگاه (kârgâh, “workshop”).

Noun

گركف • (gerkef)

1. 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

• گركف ایشی (gerkef işi, “embroidery worked on a frame”)
• گركف قولی (gerkef kolu, “stretcher of an embroidery frame”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: gergef — dialectal
• → Albanian: gjergjef
• → Armenian: քերկեֆ (kʻerkef)
• → Bulgarian: герге́ф (gergéf)
• → Greek: γκεργκέφι (gkergkéfi)
• → Macedonian: ѓерѓеф (ǵerǵef)
• → Romanian: gherghef
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ђѐрђеф

  Latin script: đèrđef

Further reading

• 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