ایرك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• ایریك (iriñ)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *iriŋ (“pus”); cognate with Azerbaijani irin, Bashkir эрен (eren), Kazakh ірің (ırıñ), Khakas ірінъ (ìrìnʺ), Kyrgyz ириң (iriŋ), Turkmen iriň, Tuvan ириң (iriñ), Uyghur يىرىڭ (yiring) and Uzbek yiring.

Noun

ایرك • (iriñ)

1. pus, a whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria

   Synonyms: جراحات (cerahat), چرك (çirk)

Derived terms

• ایركلنمك (iriñlenmek, “to suppurate”)
• ایركلو (iriñli, “purulent”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: irin
• → Armenian: իրին (irin)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “irin2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2204
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ایرك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 93a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایریك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 216
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1411
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایرك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 591
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “irin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایرك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 293