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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاریش or قارش (ḳarış), from Proto-Turkic *karïĺ (“distance between tips of the thumb and pinky finger”), from *kar- (“to add”) + *-ïĺ.
Pronunciation
Noun
karış (definite accusative karışı, plural karışlar)
- A span, handspan.
Declension
Derived terms
Verb
karış
- second-person singular imperative of karışmak
References
- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “قاریش”, in قاموس تركی (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1024
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاریش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 926
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1410
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “karış”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 663
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*K(i)arɨĺ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karış”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “karış”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu