# كرج
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Persian *karag whence Persian کره (kare, “butter; mouldiness, mustiness”). The verbs are denominal.

#### Pronunciation

* (noun): IPA: /ka.rad͡ʒ/
* (stem I): IPA: /ka.ri.d͡ʒa/
* (stem II): IPA: /kar.ra.d͡ʒa/

#### Noun

كَرَج • (karaj) m (obsolete, rare)
* mouldiness, mustiness, the being, becoming or having become bad

##### Derived terms

* كَرِجَ (karija), كَرَّجَ (karraja), أَكْرَجَ (ʔakraja), تَكَرَّجَ (takarraja), all of like meaning

#### Verb

كَرِجَ • (karija) I (non-past يَكْرَجُ (yakraju), verbal noun كَرَج (karaj)) (obsolete, intransitive, rare)
* to go bad, to go mouldy

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

كَرَّجَ • (karraja) II (non-past يُكَرِّجُ (yukarriju), verbal noun تَكْرِيج (takrīj)) (obsolete, intransitive, rare)
* to go bad, to go mouldy

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Persian گرج (gorj).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kurd͡ʒ/

#### Proper noun

كُرْج • (kurj) m (collective, singulative كُرْجِيّ m (kurjiyy))
* (collective, historical or obsolete) Georgians (especially in the Middle Ages)

##### Declension
#### See also

* جُورْجِيَا (jorjiyā)
* جَرْجَان (jarjān)

### Etymology 3

From Middle Persian [script needed] (kwlk' /⁠kurrag⁠/, “colt”) whence Persian کره (korra, “colt”).

#### Alternative forms

* كُرَّك (kurrak) — rare

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kur.rad͡ʒ/, /kur.rid͡ʒ/

#### Noun

كُرَّج or كُرِّج • (kurraj or kurrij) m (obsolete)
* hobby horse, wooden imitation of a horse for children to play
** 915, At-Ṭabarī, Tārīḵ, ed. de Goeje series 3 page 971 last line, web here and there:وإذا محمد في كُرَّج، وإذا الدار مملوءة وصائف وخدماً، وإذا اللعّابون يلعبون، ومحمد وسطهم في الكُرَّج يرقص فيه،(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Declension
### References

* Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1097, where only the hobby-horse meaning, claiming the etymon wrongly “Neo-Persian” kurrag
* Fīrūzābādī (1834) Al-uqiyānūs al-basīt‎, 2nd edition, volume I, translated from Arabic into Ottoman Turkish by Aḥmad ʻĀṣim, Constantinople, page 433
* Lagarde, Paul de (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 2381, page 160
* Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy (a. 1229) Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, editor, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān]‎ (in Arabic), volume 4, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1869, page 250 from last line for various forms of the mould borrowing
* Ullmann, Manfred (1959–2009) Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 120b, where only the mouldiness meanings and the hobby-horse meaning, with more quotations, and correct etymologization save that the terms are inexactly both explained with the Neo-Persian forms

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

### Noun

كرج • (kirec) (definite accusative كرجی (kireci), plural كرجلر (kirecler))
* Alternative spelling of كیرج (kirec, “lime”)

### Further reading

* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كرج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 386b
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3906
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1535