كوهرچله
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Persian گوهرچله (gûharçile, “saltpetre”), a derivation from گوهر (gowhar, “pearl; jewel”).
Noun[edit]
كوهرچله • (güherçile, göherçile, güverçile, geherçile, gevherçile, güherçele, geherçele, gevherçele)
- saltpetre, potassium nitrate, a naturally occurring salt, notably used as an ingredient of gunpowder
- Synonym: شوره (şure)
Derived terms[edit]
- كوهرچله طوزی (güherçile tuzu, “nitrate of potash”)
- كوهرچله قایماغی (güherçile kaymağı, “calcined magnesia”)
- كوهرچلهلی (güherçileli, “nitrated”)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: güherçile
- → Armenian: կիւհէռչիլէ (kiwhēṙčʻilē), կիւհէրչիլէ (kiwhērčʻilē)
- → Egyptian Arabic: كوهرجلة (kūhargala)
- → Romanian: ghiuvergilea
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “güherçile”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1793
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوهرچله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1062
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nitrum”, 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 1141
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوهرچله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 4099
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güherçile”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوهرچله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1605