كراز

Compare Classical Syriac ܟܱܪܳܙܳܐ (karrāzā, “ram, bell-wether”), Aramaic כַּרְזִילָא / ܟܱܪܙܺܝܠܱܐ (karzīlā, “shepherd, pastor”), Akkadian 𒇽𒆪𒍝𒇻 (/⁠kuzallu⁠/, “shepherd, pastor”), possibly a loan from Hurrian, Urartian, or derived from Sumerian 𒇻𒄖𒊒𒍑𒌈𒆯 (/⁠kuruštu⁠/, “sheep or goats that are kept around to be fattened”).

• IPA^(key): /kar.raːz/

كَرَّاز • (karrāz) m (plural كَرَارِيز (karārīz))

1. big ram, bellwether

From Aramaic כרוז / כרז (“a type of container”), Classical Syriac ܟܪܙܐ (karrāzā, “pitcher”), possibly from Akkadian 𒆳𒍣𒍝𒆪 (/⁠kurziza, kurzizakku⁠/, “a basket, container”), from Sumerian 𒄥𒋛𒁲 (/⁠gursisa⁠/, “basket, container”, literally “normal or standard 𒄥 (gur)”).

• IPA^(key): /ku.raːz/, /kur.raːz/

كُرَاز or كُرَّاز • (kurāz or kurrāz) m (plural كِرْزَان (kirzān))

1. hydria, cantharus, a kind of jug with strait neck without handles or only short handles
   • c. 1110, Al-Ḥarīriyy ed. Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, “المقامة الصورية”, in Les séances de Hariri, volume 1, Paris, published 1822, page 330:

     وَقَد بَذَلَ لَهَا مِنَ الصَّدَاقِ شَلَّاقًا وَعُكّازًا. وَصِقَاعًا وَكُرَّازًا. فَأَنْكَحُوهُ إِنْكَاحَ مِثْلِهِ

     wa-qad baḏala la-hā mina ṣ-ṣadāqi šallāqan wa-ʕukkāzan. wa-ṣiqāʕan wa-kurrāzan. fa-ʔankaḥū-hu ʔinkāḥa miṯli-hī

     And he offered for her of dowry a beggar’s knapsack and mendicant’s staff, and a mouth-rag and a drinking-jar. And they gave him off to marriage in such a fashion.

• → Armenian: քռազ (kʻṙaz)
• → Galician: alcarraza
• → Persian: کراز (korâz)
• → Portuguese: alcarraza
• → Spanish: alcarraza
  • → English: alcarraza

• “krz”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “krzyl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “krz³”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Corriente, Federico (2008), “كراز”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886), Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 81–82
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “كراز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 24
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “كراز”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 881
• Ullmann, Manfred (1959–1970), Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache. Band I (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 124b–125a

• كراس (kiras), كرس (keres), كیراز (kiraz), كیراس (kiras)

Borrowed from Greek κεράσι (kerási, “cherry”), from Ancient Greek κερᾰ́σῐον (kerắsĭon, “cherry”).

• IPA^(key): /ciˈɾaz/

كراز • (kiraz) (definite accusative كرازی (kirazı), plural كرازلر (kirazlar))

1. cherry, any tree or shrub of the species Prunus subg. Cerasus and its small, edible fruit

• Turkish: kiraz
• → Armenian: քիրազ (kʻiraz)
• → Crimean Tatar: kiraz