قرباچ
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from Proto-Turkic *kïr- (“to break”) + the suffix which is in Old Turkic [script needed] (-maç). The phonetic alteration could have been in imitation of a cracking whip.[1] In Azerbaijani qırmanc, qırmac.
Noun
[edit]قرباچ • (kırbaç)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kırbaç
- → Albanian: kërbaç
- → Arabic: كِرْبَاج (kirbāj), كُرْبَاج (kurbāj)
- → Tigre: ክርባጅ (kərbaǧ)
- → English: kurbash
- → Belarusian: карба́ч (karbáč)
- → Czech: karabáč
- → German: Karbatsche
- → French: courbache
- → Italian: curbascio (semi-learned)
- → Hungarian: korbács
- → Romanian: gârbaci
- → Russian: карба́ч (karbáč)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: corbacho
- → Ukrainian: карба́ч (karbáč)
References
[edit]- ^ “kurbash”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.