كرسف

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • كُرْفُس (kurfus) hardly found in use, apparently original form obsolete by the time Arabic is usually attested

Etymology

From Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa, cotton).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kur.suf/

Noun

كُرْسُف • (kursuf) m (plural كَرَاسِف (karāsif))

  1. (Classical Arabic) cotton
    Synonyms: قُطْن (quṭn), عُطْب (ʕuṭb)
    • a. 660, Labīd, unclear title:
      لَهَا غُلَلٌ مِنْ رَازِقِيّ وَكُرْسُف
      lahā ḡulalun min rāziqiyy wakursuf
      There are coverings of rāziqīy linen and cotton
    • a. 962, كشاجم quoted in Abū Hilāl al-ʕAskarī, ديوان المعاني [dīwān al-maʕānī]:
      جنيُّ يومٍ لم يؤخر لغدِ … ولم ينقل من يدٍ إلى يدِ
      كالعقدِ إلا أنه لم يُعقدِ … أو كالفصوص في أكفِّ الخرَّدِ
      أو ككبار اللؤلؤِ المنضّد … في طيِّ أصدافِ من الزبرجدِ
      مفروشة بالكرسُفِ المُلَبَّد
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 30 l. 16:

Declension

Descendants

  • Ancient Greek: γοσσύπιον (gossúpion)
  • Ottoman Turkish: كرسف (kırsef)

Further reading

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • كرسوف (kürsüf)

Etymology

From Arabic كُرْسُف (kursuf, cotton or similar thing put in an inkholder; a menstrous cloth; a pessary).

Noun

كرسف • (kırsef)

  1. cotton wool, raw fibers of cotton before being processed
    Synonym: پاموق (pamuk)

Further reading

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gossipium”, 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 660
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرسف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3917
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرسف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1537b
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