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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
From Arabic حَرِير (ḥarīr, “silk”).
Noun
حریر • (harir)
- silk, a fine fiber excreted by the silkworm
- Synonyms: ابرشیم (ibrişim), ایپك (ipek), قز (“kazz”)
- thread, cloth or garments made of silk
- silk paper, tissue paper
Derived terms
Etymology 2
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Adjective
حریر • (harir)
- hot and humid, sultry
- heated with anger, angry
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حریر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 504
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sericum”, 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 1545
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حریر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 1751–1752
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حریر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 780