قرش

See also: فرس‎, فرش‎, and ف ر س‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ق ر ش‎ (q-r-š).

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /qa.ra.ʃa/

Verb

قَرَشَ • (qaraša) I, non-past يَقْرِشُ‎ or يَقْرُشُ‎‎ (yaqrišu or yaqrušu)

  1. to gnash, to grind (one's teeth)
  2. to nibble
  3. to chew, to crunch
Conjugation

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /qarʃ/

Noun

قَرْش • (qarš) m

  1. verbal noun of قَرَشَ (qaraša) (form I)

Etymology 2

From قَرَشَ‎ (qaraša, “to gnash, to grind (one's teeth)”). Doubtfully from Ancient Greek καρχαρίας (karkharías, “shark”), from κάρχαρος (kárkharos, “sharp, jagged”), also present in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic כרשא‎ (“probably shark”), Latin carcharias, carcharus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qirʃ/

Noun

قِرْش • (qirš) m (plural قُرُوش‎ (qurūš))

  1. shark
Declension

Etymology 3

Back-formation from the plural, itself borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قروش‎ (modern Turkish kuruş), from German Groschen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qirʃ/

Noun

قِرْش • (qirš) m (plural قُرُوش‎ (qurūš))

  1. qirsh; a currency denomination used in the Ottoman Empire
  2. piaster, qursh, kurus; currency denominations used today in some former Ottoman countries
  3. groschen, groat, grosso; any of a number of defunct European currency units
  4. grosz; a currency denomination used in Poland (one hundredth of a złoty)
Declension
Descendants
  • English: qursh, girsh; gursh; qirsh
  • → Amharic: ቀርሽ (ḳarš), ቍርሽ (ḳʷurš)
  • → Harari: ቀርሺ (ḳärši)
  • → Sebat Bet Gurage: ቀርሺ (ḳärši)
  • → Tigrinya: ቀርሺ (ḳärši), ቅርሺ (ḳərši), ቍርሽ (ḳʷurš), ግርሺ (gərši)
  • → Tigre: ግርሽ (gərš), ቅርሽ (ḳərš), ገርሽ (garš), ቀርሽ (ḳarš)

References

  • “krš2”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1886) Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎, volume 40, page 187
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 87–88
  • Streck, Maximilian (1907), “Bemerkungen zu einigen arabischen Fischnamen”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 61, page 637
  • Vollers, Karl (1896), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 50, page 614
  • Vollers, Karl (1897), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 51, page 301

Egyptian Arabic

Noun

قرش • (ʾerš) m pl قروش‎ (ʔorūš)

  1. shark
  2. piaster (one hundredth of an Egyptian pound)

Hijazi Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡirʃ/, [ɡe̞ɾʃ], [ɡɪɾʃ]
قِرْش

Etymology 1

From Arabic قِرْش‎ (qirš).

Noun

قِرْش • (girš) m (plural قُروش‎ (gurūš))

  1. shark
قِرْش

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish قروش‎ (kuruş), from German Groschen, from Latin grossus.

Noun

قِرْش • (girš) m (plural قُروش‎ (gurūš))

  1. coin
See also

Mozarabic

Verb

قرش (qariš)

  1. Alternative spelling of كارش‎ (kāriš): you want
    • c. 1100, al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī, Kharja A5 :[1]
      بر قي نو قرش ياللَّه متَّار
      bərqəy nū qariš bi-llāhi məttāri
      Why, by God, don't you want to kill [me]?

References

  1. Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 57–59

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic قِرْش‎ (qirš).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qirʃ/, [qirʃ]
  • (file)

Noun

قرش • (ʔirš) m (plural قروش‎ (ʔrūš))

  1. piastre, penny, cent (subdivision of a currency, usually one hundredth)
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