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▪ DRS 10 (2012)#KRZ-7, like many other sources, traces Ar karaz ‘cherry’ back to Grk kerásion ‘id.’.
▪ Rolland2015: Ar karaz ‘cherry’ and Grk kerásion ‘id.’ are probably from the same Sem source (as also Akk girīṣu ¹ ).
▪ Hava1899 marks Ar karaz with a “T”, signaling Tu origin. According to Nişanyan (18Aug2014), Tu kiraz ‘cherry’² is from Grk kerási ‘cherry’, from oGrk kerasós ‘bird cherry, hackberry’, from IE *ker-5 ‘cherry (or similarly red fruit)’.
▪ BadawiHinds1986: EgAr kirēz, kirēzaẗ, kirezāyaẗ ‘cherry’ are from Tu kiraz ‘id.’.
▪ Cf. also ↗qarāṣiyaẗ (var. qarāṣiyā, qarāsiyā).

1. CAD: ‘(a tree); Akk loan-word in Sum. – The Akkadian Dictionary of the Association Assyrophile de France suggests Fr ‘cerise’ / Engl ‘cherry’, with a question mark. Rolland thinks we are dealing with ‘cornel cherries’ here (personal communication, 27Jul2015). 2. First attested in 1300 as Chiras ‘cerasum’ in the Codex Cumanicus, then as kerasyā, P[ers] kirās or kires ‘ceresa’ in Meninski’s Thesaurus, 1680.

west

▪ Words for ‘cherry’ in Western langs (e.g. Engl cherry, which is from Fr cerise, Ge Kirsche, etc.), all go back, via Lat cerasus, to Grk kerásion. Not related to the n.prop.loc. Giresun. The Grk word is assumed to be of non-IE (Kluge2008) or Sem (Rolland2014) origin, or from a Thrak or oAnat lang (Nişanyan18Aug2014).

deriv

► karazī, adj., cherry-red: nsb-adj.

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