كردن

See also: گردن

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• گردان (gerdan)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian گردن (gardan, “neck”).

Noun

گردن • (gerden)

1. neck, collum, the part of the body connecting the head and the trunk

   Synonyms: بویون (boyun), عنق (ʿunk)

Derived terms

• گردنلك (gerdenlik, “anything worn around the neck”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gerdan
• → Albanian: gjerdan, gjardan, gjerdhan, gjordan
• → Armenian: կէռտան (kēṙtan), կէրտան (kērtan)
• → Aromanian: ghiurdane, ghiurdani, ghirdane, ghirdani
• → Bulgarian: герда́н (gerdán)
• → Greek: γιορντάνι (giorntáni), [script needed] (giurdáni)
• → Macedonian: ѓердан (ǵerdan)
• → Romanian: gherdan, ghiordan, ghirdan
• → Serbo-Croatian: ђѐрда̄н / đèrdān

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gerden”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1686
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كردن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 337a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كردن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1020
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Collum”, 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 204
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كردن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3913
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كردن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1536