طرپان

Ottoman Turkish

طرپان

Alternative forms

  • ترپان (tırpan), درپان (dırpan), طيرپان (tırpan)

Etymology

From Greek δρεπάνι (drepáni, sickle, scythe), from Ancient Greek δρεπάνιον (drepánion, sickle).

Noun

طرپان • (tırpan)

  1. scythe, a tool composed of a long, curving blade, used for mowing grass or grain by hand
  2. trephine, a surgical instrument with a cylindrical blade used to remove a circular section of tissue

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: tırpan
  • Armenian: թըրփան (tʻərpʻan)
  • Laz: თირფანი (tirpani)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tırpan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4816
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طرپان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 312a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طرپان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 802
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Falx”, 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, Vienna, column 548
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طرپان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3095
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 59
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tırpan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طرپان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1236
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