كرپك

Ottoman Turkish

كرپكلر

Alternative forms

  • كرپیك (kirpik)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kirpik (eyelash); cognate with Azerbaijani kirpik, Bashkir керпек (kerpek), Chuvash хӑрпӑк (hărp̬ăk), Kazakh кірпік (kırpık), Kyrgyz кирпик (kirpik), Tatar керфек (kerfek), Turkmen kirpik, Uyghur كىرپىك (kirpik) and Uzbek kiprik.

Noun

كرپك • (kirpik)

  1. eyelash, one of the hairs which grow along the edge of eyelids
    Synonym: مژه (müje)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kirpik
  • Albanian: qerpik
  • Armenian: Քիրփիքյան (Kʻirpʻikʻyan)

Further reading

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