كراني

Arabic

Etymology

From Sanskrit करण (karaṇa, “scribe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kar.raː.nijj/

Noun

كَرَّانِيّ • (karrāniyy) m

1. ship scribe, ship’s clerk, secretary
   • 1355, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa ed. Charles Defrémery et Beniamino Sanguinetti, Vol. IV, page 250 = Jean-Paul G. Potet, Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, p. 382–383

     اِسْتَدْعَت هٰذِهِ الْمَلِكَةُ ٱلنَاخُوذَة، صَاحِبَ ٱلمَرْكَبِ، / وَٱلكَرَّانِيَّ، وَهُوَ الْكَاتِبُ / وَٱلتُجَّارَ وَٱلرُؤَسَاءَ / وَٱلتِنْدِيلَ وَهُوَ مُقَدَّمُ ٱلْرُجَّالِ / وَسِپَاه سَالَارَ وَهُوَ مُقَدَّمُ ٱلرُمَاةِ / لِضِيَافَةٍ صَنَعَتْهَا لَهُم عَلَى عَادَتِهَا.

     istadʕat hāḏihī l-malikatu n-nāḵūḏa, ṣāḥiba l-markabi, / wa-l-karrāniyya, wa-huwa l-kātibu / wa-t-tujjāra wa-r-ruʔasāʔa / wa-t-tindīla wa-huwa muqaddamu l-rujjāli / wa-sipāh-sālāra wa-huwa muqaddamu r-rumāti / li-ḍiyāfatin ṣanaʕat-hā la-hum ʕalā ʕādati-hā.

     This queen invited the ship-master, the owner of the vessel, and the ship-scribe, that is the writer, the merchants and the heads, the tindal, that is the commandant of the footmen, and the guard-master, that is the commandant of the archers, to a state dinner she organized according to her wont.

Declension

Declension of noun كَرَّانِيّ (karrāniyy)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	كَرَّانِي karrānī	الْكَرَّانِي al-karrānī	كَرَّانِي karrānī
Nominative	كَرَّانِيٌّ karrāniyyun	الْكَرَّانِيُّ al-karrāniyyu	كَرَّانِيُّ karrāniyyu
Accusative	كَرَّانِيًّا karrāniyyan	الْكَرَّانِيَّ al-karrāniyya	كَرَّانِيَّ karrāniyya
Genitive	كَرَّانِيٍّ karrāniyyin	الْكَرَّانِيِّ al-karrāniyyi	كَرَّانِيِّ karrāniyyi

Descendants

• → Swahili: karani
  • → Kikuyu: karani
  • → Malagasy:

References

• Agius, Dionisius A. (2008) Classic Ships of Islam. From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 92), Leiden: Brill, page 362