The story
- Turkish · derived fromkırbaç
- Arabic · borrowed fromكُرْبَاج
- English todaykurbash
From Arabic كُرْبَاج (kurbāj), from Turkish kırbaç. Compare French cravache and German Karbatsche. Doublet of cravache.
Words from the same roots
Arabicكُرْبَاج all →
kibosh
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.