كراني

From Sanskrit करण (karaṇa, “scribe”).

• IPA^(key): /kar.raː.nijj/

كَرَّانِيّ • (karrāniyy) m

1. ship scribe, ship’s clerk, secretary
   • 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎, volume IV, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1858, page 250:
     also at Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, pages 382–383

     اِسْتَدْعَت هٰذِهِ الْمَلِكَةُ ٱلنَاخُوذَة، صَاحِبَ ٱلمَرْكَبِ، / وَٱلكَرَّانِيَّ، وَهُوَ الْكَاتِبُ / وَٱلتُجَّارَ وَٱلرُؤَسَاءَ / وَٱلتِنْدِيلَ وَهُوَ مُقَدَّمُ ٱلْرُجَّالِ / وَسِپَاه سَالَارَ وَهُوَ مُقَدَّمُ ٱلرُمَاةِ / لِضِيَافَةٍ صَنَعَتْهَا لَهُم عَلَى عَادَتِهَا.

     istadʕat hāḏihī l-malikatu n-nāḵūḏa, ṣāḥiba l-markabi, / wa-l-karrāniyya, wa-huwa l-kātibu / wa-t-tujjāra wa-r-ruʔasāʔa / wa-t-tindīla wa-huwa muqaddamu l-rujjāli / wa-sipāh-sālāra wa-huwa muqaddamu r-rumāti / li-ḍiyāfatin ṣanaʕat-hā la-hum ʕalā ʕādati-hā.

     This queen invited the ship-master, the owner of the vessel, and the ship-scribe, that is the writer, the merchants and the heads, the tindal, that is the commandant of the footmen, and the guard-master, that is the commandant of the archers, to a state dinner she organized according to her wont.

• → Swahili: karani
  • → Kikuyu: karani
  • → Malagasy:

• Agius, Dionisius A. (2008) Classic Ships of Islam. From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 92), Leiden: Brill, page 362