كبریت

See also: كبريت and کبریت

Ottoman Turkish

كبریتلر

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كِبْرِيت (kibrīt, “sulfur”), from Aramaic כִּבְּרִיתָא (kiḇrīṯā), itself from Akkadian 𒆠𒀀𒀭𒀀𒇉 (kibrītu, “sulfur, firebrand”).

Noun

كبریت • (kibrit) (definite accusative كبریتی (kibriti), plural كبریتلر (kibritler))

1. (chemistry) sulfur, a chemical element with an atomic number of 16

   Synonym: كوكورت (kükürt)

2. match, a device made of wood or paper which ignites through friction

Derived terms

• كبریت احمر (kibrit-i ahmer, “philosopher's stone”)
• كبریت اوجاغی (kibrit ocağı, “sulfur mine”)
• كبریت توتیا (kibrit-i tutya, “blende, sphalerite”)
• كبریت حامض (kibrit-i hamız, “sulfuric acid”)
• كبریت صویی (kibrit suyu, “diluted sulfuric acid”)
• كبریت كبی اولمق (kibrit gibi olmak, “to become sallow like sulfur”)
• كبریتجی (kibritci, “matchmaker”)
• كبریتلمك (kibritlemek, “to sulfurate”)
• كبریتلو (kibritli, “containing sulfur”)
• كبریتی (kibritî, “sulfuric”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kibrit
• → Armenian: քիբրիթ (kʻibritʻ)
• → Bulgarian: кибрит (kibrit)
• → Laz: ქიფრიტი (kipriťi), ჩიპიტი (çip̌iťi) — Atina, ჩირპიტი (çirp̌iťi) — Vizha, ჩიბრიტი (çibriťi) — Okordule, ქირპიტი (kirp̌iťi) — Vitse
• → Macedonian: кибрит (kibrit)
• → Romanian: chibrit

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كبریت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 609
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kibrit”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2666
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كبریت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 383b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كبریت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1009
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sulphur”, 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 1626
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كبریت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3864
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kibrit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كبریت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1522