ابرشیم

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ابریشم (abrišam, “silk”).

Noun

ابرشیم • (ibrişim)

1. silk, a fine fiber excreted by the silkworm

   Synonyms: ایپك (ipek), حریر (harir), قز (kazz)

2. doubly twisted silk thread, as used for sewing, tassels etc.
3. silken cord, for a harp, lute etc.

Derived terms

• ابرشیمجی (ibrişimci, “maker or seller of silk thread”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ibrişim
• → Bulgarian: ибриши́м (ibriším)
• → Macedonian: и́бришим (íbrišim)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ибрѝшим

  Latin script: ibrìšim

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ibrişim”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2075
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ابرشیم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 46
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sericum”, 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 1545
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ابرشیم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 23–24
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ابرشیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 12