كریم

See also: كريم

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَرِيم (karīm, “noble, generous, liberal”).

Adjective

كریم • (kerim)

1. noble, gracious, magnanimous, having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty

   Synonym: شریف (şerif)

2. generous, liberal, munificent, permitting liberty, willing to give and share unsparingly

   Synonyms: جومرد (cömerd), سمیح (semih)

Derived terms

• الله كریم (allah kerim, “nevermind”)
• كریمانه (kerimane, “special to a kind men”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kerim

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kerim2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2559
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “kerîm”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 610
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كریم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1023
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Generosus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 645
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كریم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3936
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kerim”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كریم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1543