كرج

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See also: گرچ and كرچ

Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Persian *karag whence Persian کره (kare, butter; mouldiness, mustiness). The verbs are denominal.

Pronunciation

  • (noun): IPA(key): /ka.rad͡ʒ/
  • (stem I): IPA(key): /ka.ri.d͡ʒa/
  • (stem II): IPA(key): /kar.ra.d͡ʒa/

Noun

كَرَج (karajm (obsolete, rare)

  1. mouldiness, mustiness, the being, becoming or having become bad
Declension
Derived terms

Verb

كَرِجَ (karija) I (non-past يَكْرَجُ (yakraju), verbal noun كَرَج (karaj)) (obsolete, intransitive, rare)

  1. to go bad, to go mouldy
Conjugation

Verb

كَرَّجَ (karraja) II (non-past يُكَرِّجُ (yukarriju), verbal noun تَكْرِيج (takrīj)) (obsolete, intransitive, rare)

  1. to go bad, to go mouldy
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Persian گرج (gorj).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

كُرْج (kurjm (collective, singulative كُرْجِيّ m (kurjiyy))

  1. (collective, historical or obsolete) Georgians (especially in the Middle Ages)
Declension

See also

Etymology 3

From Middle Persian (kwlk' /⁠kurrag⁠/, colt) whence Persian کره (korra, colt).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kur.rad͡ʒ/, /kur.rid͡ʒ/

Noun

كُرَّج or كُرِّج (kurraj or kurrijm (obsolete)

  1. hobby horse, wooden imitation of a horse for children to play
    • 915, At-Ṭabarī, Tārīḵ, ed. de Goeje series 3 page 971 last line, web here and there:
      وإذا محمد في كُرَّج، وإذا الدار مملوءة وصائف وخدماً، وإذا اللعّابون يلعبون، ومحمد وسطهم في الكُرَّج يرقص فيه،
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension

References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1097, where only the hobby-horse meaning, claiming the etymon wrongly “Neo-Persian” kurrag
  • Fīrūzābādī (1834) Al-uqiyānūs al-basīt, 2nd edition, volume I, translated from Arabic into Ottoman Turkish by Aḥmad ʻĀṣim, Constantinople, page 433
  • Lagarde, Paul de (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 2381, page 160
  • Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy (a. 1229) Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, editor, كتاب معجم البلدان (in Arabic), volume 4, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1869, page 250 from last line for various forms of the mould borrowing
  • Ullmann, Manfred (1959–2009) Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 120b, where only the mouldiness meanings and the hobby-horse meaning, with more quotations, and correct etymologization save that the terms are inexactly both explained with the Neo-Persian forms

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

كرج (kirec)

  1. alternative form of كیرچ (kireç, lime)