كوپری

See also: كوبري

Ottoman Turkish

كوپری

Alternative forms

• كورپی (körpi), كورپو (körpü)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *köpürüg (“bridge”); cognate with Azerbaijani körpü, Bashkir күпер (küper), Chuvash кӗпер (kĕp̬er), Kazakh көпір (köpır), Kyrgyz көпүрө (köpürö), Tatar күпер (küper), Turkmen köpri, Uyghur كۆۋرۈك (köwrük) and Uzbek koʻprik.

Noun

كوپری • (köpri)

1. bridge, a construction or natural feature that spans a divide

   Synonyms: پل (pül), قنطره (kantara)

2. cleat, a strip of wood or iron fastened onto something in order to give strength
3. trigger guard, a thin loop surrounding the trigger of a firearm

Derived terms

• آصمه كوپری (asma köpri, “drawbridge”)
• طاش كوپریسی (taş köprisi, “stone bridge”)
• طوقه كوپریسی (toka köprisi, “bridge of a buckle”)
• كلید كوپریسی (kilid köprisi, “hasp of a lock”)
• كمان كوپریسی (keman köprisi, “bridge of a violin”)
• كوپریجك (köpricik, “collarbone”)
• كوپریجی (köprici, “toll-taker of a bridge”)
• كوپریلو (köprili, “bridged”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: köprü
• Gagauz: köprü
• → Hijazi Arabic: كبري (kubri)
• → Egyptian Arabic: كوبري (kobrı)
• → Armenian: քէօփրիւ (kʿēōpʿriw)
• → Bulgarian: кюприя (kjuprija) (obsolete)
• → Greek: κιοπρουλής (kioproulís)
• → Ladino: kyupri, kopri
• → Macedonian: ќуприја (ḱuprija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ћу̀прија/ćùprija

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “köprü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2787
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوپری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 398a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوپری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1045
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pons”, 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 1317
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوپری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4050
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “köprü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوپری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1580