kerte

== Danish == === Alternative forms === kærte === Etymology === From Old Norse kerti, from Middle Low German kerte. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɛrtə/, [ˈkʰæɐ̯d̥ə] === Noun === kerte c (singular definite kerten, plural indefinite kerter) candle (light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin) taper (slender wax candle) ==== Inflection ==== == Turkish == === Etymology === From Ottoman Turkish كرته (kerte), from Italian quarto. === Noun === kerte (definite accusative kerteyi, plural kerteler) (nautical) point (small division of a compass), rhumb direction, degree the right time === Further reading === Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “kerte”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kerte¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2562 Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958), The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 530