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сирек

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Bashkir

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Etymology

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From Persian چهاریک (čahâryek), چاریک (čâryek), چارک (čârak, one fourth).

Cognate with Kazakh ширек (şirek), Uzbek chorak (one fourth, quarter).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [sʲe.ˈɾɪ̞k]
  • Hyphenation: си‧рек

Noun

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сирек (sirek)

  1. quarter, one fourth
  2. (high school) school term (there are four such terms in an academic year)
  3. (moon phase) quarter

Declension

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Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic سيرەك
Cyrillic сирек
Latin sirek

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *sedrek (rare). Cognate with Tatar сирәк (siräk), Bashkir һирәк (hirək), Kyrgyz сейрек (seyrek), Uzbek siyrak, Turkish seyrek, Azerbaijani seyrək, Turkmen seýrek (rare), etc.

Adjective

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сирек (sirek)

  1. sparse, rare

Derived terms

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