قرباچ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Turkic *kïr- (“to break”) + the suffix which is in Old Turkic [script needed] (-maç). The phonetic alteration could have been in imitation of a cracking whip.[1] In Azerbaijani qırmanc, qırmac.

Noun

قرباچ • (kırbaç)

whip, lash

Descendants

Turkish: kırbaç
→ Albanian: kërbaç
→ Arabic: كِرْبَاج (kirbāj), كُرْبَاج (kurbāj)
- → Tigre: ክርባጅ (kərbaǧ)
- → English: kurbash
→ Belarusian: карба́ч (karbáč)
→ Czech: karabáč
→ German: Karbatsche
- → French: cravache
  - → Italian: cravascia (semi-learned), → cravache (unadapted)
→ French: courbache
- → Italian: curbascio (semi-learned)
→ Hungarian: korbács
- → Polish: korbacz, karbacz
- → Slovak: korbáč
→ Romanian: gârbaci
→ Russian: карба́ч (karbáč)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Latin script: kòrbāč, krbač, grbač

Cyrillic script: ко̀рба̄ч, крбач, грбач
→ Spanish: corbacho
→ Ukrainian: карба́ч (karbáč)

References

“kurbash”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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[1] “kurbash”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.