صرچه

Ottoman Turkish

صرچه

Alternative forms

• سرچه (sırça)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïrïčga (“glass, rock crystal”); cognate with Chuvash шăрçа (šărça), Karakhanid [script needed] (sɨrɨčɣa) and Turkmen syrça.

Noun

صرچه • (sırça)

1. rock crystal, a clear, colorless form of quartz
2. glass, an amorphous and often transparent substance

   Synonym: جام (cam)

3. any precious stone in the rough; an uncut diamond
4. the long, glossy hairs naturally found in some furs

Adjective

صرچه • (sırça)

1. of glass, glassy, vitreous

   Synonym: جام (cam)

Derived terms

• صرچه سرای (sırça saray, “glasshouse”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sırça
• → Armenian: սըռչա (səṙčʻa)
• → Macedonian: срча (srča)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: срча

  Latin script: srča

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sırça”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4212
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صرچه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 299a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صرچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 760
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vitrum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1775
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سرچه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2586
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sırça”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صرچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1174