كرسف

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • كرسوف‎ (kürsüf)

Etymology

From Arabic كُرْسُف‎ (kursuf, “cotton or similar thing put in an inkholder; a menstrous cloth; a pessary”).

Noun

كرسف • (kırsef)

  1. cotton wool, raw fibers of cotton before being processed

Further reading
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gossipium”, 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 660
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كرسف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3917
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كرسف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1537b
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