قوردله

Ottoman Turkish

قوردله

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cordella (“narrow tape or ribbon”), a diminutive of corda (“rope, cord”).

Noun

قوردله • (kordela, kordele)

  1. ribbon, a long, narrow tape used for decoration of clothing
    Synonym: شریت (şerit)
  2. ferret, a tape of silk used to tie documents or clothing

Derived terms

  • قوردله‌جی (kordeleci, “ribbonmaker”)
  • قوردله‌لی (kordeleli, “decorated with ribbons”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kurdele
  • → Armenian: քօռտէլա (kʻōṙtēla), կօռտէլա (kōṙtēla)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurdele”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2845
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوردله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 979
  • Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “cordele”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 351
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 48
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kurdele”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوردله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1483
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