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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قیرـ (kır-, “to break, crack; decimate”) + ـان (-an).
Adjective
قیران • (kıran)
- breaking, fracturing, cracking, that breaks, fractures, or cracks
- decimating, massacring, devastating, that decimates, massacres, or devastates
Derived terms
Noun
قیران • (kıran) (definite accusative قیرانی (kıranı), plural قیرانلر (kıranlar))
- murrain, epizootic, any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle
- Synonym: موتان (mutan)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kıran1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2616
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیران”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 997
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیران”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1505