قورنه

Ottoman Turkish

قورنه

Alternative forms

• قرنه (kurna), قورنا (kurna)

Etymology

From Middle Armenian գուռն (guṙn),^[1][2] from Classical Syriac ܓܘܪܢܐ (gūrnā).

Noun

قورنه • (kurna) (definite accusative قورنه‌یی (kurnayı), plural قورنه‌لر (kurnalar))

1. kind of fixed basin inside a hammam, provided with a tap for hot water and another one for cold water

Descendants

• Turkish: kurna
• → Armenian: խուռնա (xuṙna)
• → Macedonian: курна (kurna)

References

1. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գուռն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 597b
2. Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 122, page 40

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurna1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2848
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “kurna”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 268a
• Eyuboğlu, İsmet Zeki (1991) “kurna”, in Türk dilinin etimoloji sözlüğü [Etymological dictionary of the Turkish language] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Sosyal Yayınlar, page 447b, declares it from Greek “khorone”, and also “gourna”, γοῦρνα (goûrna, “urn; basin, sink; mortar”), which is rare and itself probably from Syriac or another Aramaic language.
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قورنه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 374a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 981
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lavacrum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 924
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قورنه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3792
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kurna”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485