English
kurabiye
Kurabiye comes from Turkish kurabiye ‘biscuit, cookie’, and goes back to Arabic غُرَاب ‘the extremity of the haunch, bend of the…’.
- Arabicc. 500–presentغُرَاب‘the extremity of the haunch, bend of the scabbard’
- Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928قرابیهkurabiye
- Turkish1928–presentkurabiye‘biscuit, cookie’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Arabicc. 500–presentغُرَاب‘the extremity of the haunch, bend of the scabbard’
- Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928قرابیهkurabiye
- Turkish1928–presentkurabiye‘biscuit, cookie’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992same form
Earliest quotation: 1992, Antony Sher, The indoor boy: “'What a kurabiye, what a biscuit! Ha? Aren't you?'…”
Linked words
through Arabic غُرَاب ‘the extremity of the haunch, bend of the…’
Today it means
noun A cookie, particularly a sweet cookie (originally Middle Eastern, now also Turkish, Greek and Albanian), often made with almonds or hazelnuts.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic غُرَاب / kurabiye