قرباچ

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Ottoman Turkish

قرباچ

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïrmač (“whip, lash”), possibly from *kïr- (“to break”). The suffix may be cognate with Old Turkic (-maç) with onomatopoeic change to imitate a cracking whip. Cognate with Azerbaijani qırmanc, qırmac.

Noun

قرباچ • (kırbaç) (definite accusative قرباچی (kırbaçı), plural قرباچلر (kırbaçlar))

  1. whip, lash, a pliant, flexible instrument used to direct and herd animals, or to strike a person as a punishment
    Synonyms: تازیانه (taziyane), سوط (savt), قامچی (kamçı)
  2. riding crop, horsewhip, quirt, any short type of whip without a lash used in horseriding to goad or direct a horse
    Synonym: سوط (savt)

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References

  1. ^ “kurbash”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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