كوهرچله

Ottoman Turkish

كوهرچله

Alternative forms

• كوكرچله (göğerçile, göverçile, güğerçile, güverçile), كهرچله (göherçile, güherçile, geherçile)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian گوهرچله (gûharçile, “saltpetre”), a derivation from گوهر (gowhar, “pearl; jewel”).

Noun

كوهرچله • (güherçile, göherçile, güverçile, geherçile, gevherçile, güherçele, geherçele, gevherçele)

1. saltpetre, potassium nitrate, a naturally occurring salt, notably used as an ingredient of gunpowder

   Synonym: شوره (şure)

Derived terms

• كوهرچله طوزی (güherçile tuzu, “nitrate of potash”)
• كوهرچله قایماغی (güherçile kaymağı, “calcined magnesia”)
• كوهرچله‌لی (güherçileli, “nitrated”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: güherçile
• → Armenian: կիւհէռչիլէ (kiwhēṙčʻilē), կիւհէրչիլէ (kiwhērčʻilē)
• → Egyptian Arabic: كوهرجلة (kūhargala)
• → Romanian: ghiuvergilea

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “güherçile”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1793
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوهرچله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1062
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nitrum”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1141
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوهرچله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4099
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güherçile”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوهرچله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1605