قوردله

Ottoman Turkish

قوردله

Alternative forms

• գօրտէլա (kordela) — Armeno-Turkish

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