كرید

Ottoman Turkish

كرید

Alternative forms

• اكریت (igrit)

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).

Proper noun

كرید • (girid)

1. Crete (an island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece).

Derived terms

• كرید آغاجی (kirid ağacı, “fraxinella”)
• كرید اوتی (kirid otu, “dittany of Crete”)
• كرید لادنی (kirid ladeni, “resin of the rockrose”)
• كرید لاله‌سی (kirid lalesi, “garden ranunculus”)
• كریدلو (giridli, “Cretan”)
• كریدی (giridî, “Cretan”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: Girit
• → Armenian: Կիրիտ (Kirit)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كرید”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 626
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كرید”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1023
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Creta”, 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 301
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرید”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3935
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرید”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1543
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Girit”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[5], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 291