قربه

See also: قربة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِرْبَة (qirba, “waterskin”).

Noun

قربه • (kırba) (plural قرب (kırab))

1. waterskin, a container for water made of tanned skin

   Synonyms: آبكش (abkeş), طولوم (tulum), مطره (matara)

2. (pathology) rickets, a disorder of infancy causing soft bones
3. magical incantation for the cure or discovery of any evil

Derived terms

• قربه‌جی (kırbacı, “maker or seller of waterskins”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kırba
• → Armenian: խըռպա (xəṙpa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kırba”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2617
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قربه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 953
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Uter”, 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 1797
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قربه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3663
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kırba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قربه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1444