حریر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Arabic حَرِير (ḥarīr, “silk”).

Noun

حریر • (harir)

1. silk, a fine fiber excreted by the silkworm

   Synonyms: ابرشیم (ibrişim), ایپك (ipek), قز (“kazz”)

2. thread, cloth or garments made of silk
3. silk paper, tissue paper

Derived terms

• حریری (hariri, “silken”)

Etymology 2

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Adjective

حریر • (harir)

1. hot and humid, sultry
2. heated with anger, angry

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حریر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 504
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sericum”, 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 1545
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حریر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 1751–1752
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حریر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 780