كبریت
Ottoman Turkish
كبریت
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic كِبْرِيت (kibrīt, “sulfur”), from Aramaic כִּבְּרִיתָא (kiḇrīṯā), itself from Akkadian 𒆠𒀀𒀭𒀀𒇉 (kibrītu, “sulfur, firebrand”).
Noun
كبریت • (kibrit) (plural كبریتلر (kibritler))
- (chemistry) sulfur, a chemical element with an atomic number of 16
- Synonym: كوكورت (kükürt)
- match, a device made of wood or paper which ignites through friction
Derived terms
- كبریت احمر (kibrit-i ahmer, “philosopher's stone”)
- كبریت اوجاغی (kibrit ocağı, “sulfur mine”)
- كبریت توتیا (kibrit-i tutya, “blende, sphalerite”)
- كبریت حامض (kibrit-i hamız, “sulfuric acid”)
- كبریت صویی (kibrit suyu, “diluted sulfuric acid”)
- كبریتجی (kibritci, “maker or seller of matches”)
- كبریتلمك (kibritlemek, “to sulfurate”)
- كبریتلو (kibritli, “containing sulfur”)
- كبریتی (kibritî, “sulfuric”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kibrit”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2666
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كبریت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1009
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sulphur”, 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, Vienna, column 1626
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كبریت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3864
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kibrit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كبریت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1524
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