cravache
See also: cravaché
French edit
Alternative forms edit
- courbache (directly from Ottoman, of somewhat independent meaning)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Karbatsche, from Polish karbacz, karabacz, korbacz, from Ottoman Turkish قرباچ (kırbaç).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cravache f (plural cravaches)
Descendants edit
- → Romanian: cravașă
Verb edit
cravache
- inflection of cravacher:
Further reading edit
- “cravache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French cravache. Doublet of cravascia (semi-learned borrowing from the same term), and curbascio.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cravache f (invariable)
- riding crop
- Synonym: (rare) cravascia