كركف

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Ottoman Turkish

گركف

Alternative forms

քէրկէֆ (kergef), կէրկէֆ (gergef) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Persian (kârgâh, “workshop”).

Noun

گركف • (gerkef)

tambour, embroidery hoop, a circular frame for embroidery
Synonym: قاصناق (kasnak)

քէրկէֆ իշի ― kergef işi ― embroidery

քէրկէֆ իշլէյէն ― kergef işleyen ― an embroiderer

քէրկէֆ իշլէմէք ― kergef işlemek ― to embroider

Derived terms

گركف ایشی (gerkef işi, “embroidery worked on a frame”)
گركف قولی (gerkef kolu, “stretcher of an embroidery frame”)

Descendants

Turkish: gergef — dialectal
→ Albanian: gjergjef
→ Armenian: քերկեֆ (kʻerkef)
→ Bulgarian: герге́ф (gergéf)
→ Greek: γκεργκέφι (gkergkéfi)
→ Macedonian: ѓерѓеф (ǵerǵef)
→ Romanian: gherghef
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ђѐрђеф

Latin script: đèrđef

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كركف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1021
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كركف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1539
Sōmalean, Sukʻias (1843) “քէրկէֆ”, in Hamaṙōt baṙaran i tačkerenē yangġiakan ew i hay barbaṙ [A Pocket Dictionary of the Turkish, English and Armenian Languages], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 195

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