قرباچ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Turkic *kïr- (“to break”) + the suffix which is in Old Turkic [script needed] (-maç). The phonetic alteration could have been in imitation of a cracking whip.[1] In Azerbaijani qırmanc, qırmac.

Noun

قرباچ • (kırbaç)

  1. whip, lash

Descendants
  • Turkish: kırbaç
  • → Albanian: kërbaç
  • → Arabic: كِرْبَاج‎ (kirbāj), كُرْبَاج‎ (kurbāj)
  • → Belarusian: карба́ч (karbáč)
  • → Czech: karabáč
  • → German: Karbatsche
  • → French: courbache
  • → Hungarian: korbács
  • → Romanian: gârbaci
  • → Russian: карба́ч (karbáč)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Latin script: kòrbāč, krbač, grbač
    Cyrillic script: ко̀рба̄ч, крбач, грбач
  • → Spanish: corbacho
  • → Ukrainian: карба́ч (karbáč)

References
  1. “kurbash”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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