قلبور

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قالبور (kalbur)

Etymology

From Persian غربال (ğarbâl), غربیل (ğarbil), from Arabic غِرْبَال (ḡirbāl, “sieve, riddle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑɫˈbuɾ/

Noun

قلبور • (kalbur)

1. sieve, screen, cribble, riddle any device used to separate larger particles from smaller ones

   Synonyms: الك (elek), غربال (girbal)

Derived terms

• آرناود قلبوری (Arnavud kalburu, “screen of laths”)
• قلبور كمیكی (kalbur kemiği, “ethmoid bone”)
• قلبورجی (kalburcu, “maker or seller of sieves”)
• قلبورلاتمق (kalburlatmak, “to make or let be sifted”)
• قلبورلامق (kalburlamak, “to sift, screen, or bolt”)
• قلبورلانمق (kalburlanmak, “to be sifted”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kalbur
• → Armenian: խալպուր (xalpur)
• → Persian: قلبور (qalbur) (rare Ottoman or Azeri reborrowing)
• → Russian: халбу́р (xalbúr) (19th-century argot)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalbur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2349
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قلبور”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 368a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلبور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 968
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cribrum”, 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 301
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلبور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3743
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kalbur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلبور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1470