كرپیچ

Ottoman Turkish

كرپیچلر

Alternative forms

• كرپچ (kerpiç), كرپیج (kerpic)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kerpič (“brick”); cognate with Azerbaijani kərpic, Bashkir кирбес (kirbes), Karakhanid كَرْبِجْ (kerbic, kerpiç), Kazakh кірпіш (kırpış), Southern Altai кирпич (kirpič) and Uyghur كىرپىچ (kirpich).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [cɛɾˈpit͡ʃ], [ciɾˈpit͡ʃ]

Noun

كرپیچ • (kerpiç, kirpiç)

1. mudbrick, adobe, an unfired brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw

   Synonym: لبن (libn)

Derived terms

• كرپیچ كسلمك (kerpiç kesilmek, “to be turned into a mudbrick”)
• كرپیچ كسمك (kerpiç kesmek, “to cut out mudbricks”)
• كرپیچجی (kerpiçci, “maker or seller of mudbricks”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kerpiç
• → Albanian: qerpiç
• → Arabic: كَرْبِيج (karbīj), كَرَابِيج (karābīj), كَرْبُوج (karbūj), كَرْبُوجَة (karbūja, “a kind of Syrian pastry”)
• → Armenian: քյարփինջ (kʻyarpʻinǰ), քարփինչ (kʻarpʻinčʻ), քարփինջ (kʻarpʻinǰ), քարփիճ (kʻarpʻič), քարփիչ (kʻarpʻičʻ), քարփիջ (kʻarpʻiǰ), քարփուջ (kʻarpʻuǰ), քյարփիչ (kʻyarpʻičʻ)
• → Bulgarian: кирпи́ч (kirpíč), керпи́ч (kerpíč)
• → Macedonian: ќерпич (ḱerpič)
• → Romanian: chirpici
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ћерпић, ћерпич, черпич, черпић

  Latin script: ćerpić, ćerpič, čerpič, čerpić

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kerpiç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2561
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كرپچ”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 386b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كرپیچ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1019
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Later”, 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 918
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرپچ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3904
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kerpiç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرپیچ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1235