كرپك

Ottoman Turkish

كرپكلر

Alternative forms

• كرپیك (kirpik)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kirpik (“eyelash”); cognate with Azerbaijani kirpik, Bashkir керпек (kerpek), Chuvash хӑрпӑк (hărp̬ăk), Kazakh кірпік (kırpık), Kyrgyz кирпик (kirpik), Tatar керфек (kerfek), Turkmen kirpik, Uyghur كىرپىك (kirpik) and Uzbek kiprik.

Noun

كرپك • (kirpik)

1. eyelash, one of the hairs which grow along the edge of eyelids

   Synonym: مژه (müje)

Descendants

• Turkish: kirpik
• → Albanian: qerpik
• →⇒ Armenian: Քիրփիքյան (Kʻirpʻikʻyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kirpik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2685
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كرپك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 386b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كرپیك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1019
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cilium”, 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 180
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرپك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3905
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kirpik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرپك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1537