Clauson (1972)
An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
p. 663-664
karşı:
D 1 karşı: Dev. N./A. fr. karış-; primarily a N./A. meaning ‘opposed, opposite; the opposite, a place opposite’, e.g. the opposite bank of a river and the like, but often used as an Adv., ‘against’ and the like. A l.-w. (not early) in Mong. w. extended meanings ‘obstacle, delay; evil, harm, ill-treatment’, etc. (Kow. 847); s.i.a.m.l.g. w. minor phonetic changes. Türkü viii ff. karşısın ‘his adversary’(?) IrkB 19 (a very obscure para.): Uyğ. viii ff. Civ. begi kişike yaraşmaz karşı bolur ‘he does not agree with the beg or people, he becomes hostile’ TT VII 12, 7-8; adası karşısı [gap] perhaps ‘danger’ (Hend.) do. 17, 10; in do. 24, 7(?); 25, 22 ölüm karşısı ‘danger of death’(?); (on the dragon day) kişi bile karşı bolur ‘he gets at cross-purposes with people’ do. 32, 7; in TT VIII P., an astrological text, the phr. köç karşı: occurs in 24, and köç ka:n karşıla:r in 11, 33, the first phr. being followed by ‘the peach tree flowers’. This can hardly be 1 köç ‘migration’, and is prob. 2 köç ‘the hour is hostile’; ka:n may be ‘king’ or some unknown word (?Chinese): Xak. xi karşı: al-didd ‘the opposite’; one says tü:n kü:nnüp karşnsı: ol ‘night is the opposite to day’; karşı: ‘a disagreement’ (al-ixtilaf) between two chiefs’; one says ol beg anıp birle: karşı: ol ‘that beg disagrees’(muxalif)‘with him’ Kaş. I 423; karşu: (sic, in error?) süle: ağzu ilayhimukdfahahu ‘take the field and meet him face to face’ III 272, 2: KB bu din dalı dünyâ dalı karşı ol ‘the branch of religion and the branch of the world are opposed to one another’ 5311: xiii(?) Tef. (they will sit) yüzleri biri birine karşa karşu ‘facing one another’; karşu keldiler ‘they came to meet him’ 202: Çağ. xv ff. karşu (spelt) bar-a-bar wa mutahâdi ‘face to face, opposite’ San. 272r. 7: Xwar. xiii(?) Oğuz xaganka karşu köldiler ‘advanced against Oğuz Xağan’ Oğ. 265-6: xiv karşu (usually with Dat.) ‘against’ Qutb 133: Kom. xiv karşı bardı ‘went to meet him’ CCG; Gr. 194 (quotn.): Kip. xiv karşu muqdbil ‘opposite’ İd. 70; al-muxâlif li’l-şay’ karşu Bul. 14, 8: xv muqabiluk karşında: Kav. 36, 1; muqabil karş (sic) Tuh. 35a. 13; 73b. 9 (a.o.o. with Poss. Suff.s): Osm. xiv ff. karşı/karşu (ol-, bar-, etc.); c.i.a.p. TTS I 427; II 594; III 417; IV 478.