بركه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic بُرْكَة (burka).

Noun

بركه • (bürke) (definite accusative بركه‌یی (bürkeyi), plural بركه‌لر (bürkeler))

1. seagull, but especially the common gull, any medium-sized gull of the species Larus canus

   Synonym: مارتی (martı) (seagull)

Descendants

• Turkish: bürke

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bürke1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 726
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “bürke”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 153
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بركه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 357

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic بِرْكَة (birka, “pool, tank”).

Noun

بركه • (birke) (definite accusative بركه‌یی (birkeyi), plural برك (birâk))

1. pool, water tank, reservoir, any artifical basin for storing fresh water

   Synonym: حوض (havz, havuz)

2. the part of a camel's chest that touches the ground when it kneels

Derived terms

• بركهٔ لاجورد (birke-i lâciverd, “the sky”, literally “the lapis lazuli pool”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: birke

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “birke2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 624
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “birke”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[3] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 140
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Piscina”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 1303
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بركه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 784
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بركه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 357