گربه

Borrowed from Persian گربه (gorbe, “cat”).

گربه • (gürbe)

1. cat, a common house pet (Felis catus)

   Synonyms: پسك (pisik), قط (kitt), كدی (kedi), هر (hirr)

• Turkish: gürbe

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gürbe1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1808
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “gürbe”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 357
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “گربه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1019
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Felis”, 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 560
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گربه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3905
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گربه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1535

From Middle Persian [script needed] (gwlbk' /⁠gurbag⁠/, “cat”), from Proto-Iranian *wr̥pa-ka-,[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥pís.[2][3] Compare Lithuanian vilpišys (“wildcat”), Latin vulpes (“fox”). Perhaps anciently related to روباه (rubâh, “fox”); see there for more.

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گُرْبِه • (gorbe) (plural گربه‌ها (gorbe-hâ) or گربگان (gorbegân))

1. cat
   • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎:

     و آن جا زنان را علتی می‌افتد به اوقات که چون مصروعی دو سه بار بانگ کنند و باز به هوش آیند و در خراسان شنیده بودم که جزیره‌ای است که زنان آن جا چون گربگان به فریاد می‌آیند و آن بر این گونه است که ذکر رفت.

     w-ān jā zanān rā ilatē mē-uftad ba awqāt ki čōn masrū'ē du si bār bāng kunand u bāz ba hōš āyand u dar xurāsān šunīda būdam ki jazīra'ē ast ki zanān ān jā čōn gurbagān ba faryād mē-āyand u ān bar īn gōna ast ki zikr raft.

     And there, a disease comes upon women from time to time so that they cry out like an epileptic two or three times, then return to sanity again. And in Khurasan, I had heard that there is an island whose women scream like cats. That is the same sort of thing as what has been mentioned.

• → Hindustani: gurbā

  Hindi: गुर्बा

  Urdu: گربہ