بزرك

See also: بزرگ

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• պիւզիւրկ (büzürg), պիւզիւրք (büzürk) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بُزُرْگ (buzurg, “large, big, great”), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭰𐭥𐭫𐭢 (wuzurg, wazurg, “big, great”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáȷ́ras.

Adjective

بزرك • (büzürk or büzürg)

1. (literary) large, big, great, grand, voluminous, of considerable or relatively great size or extent

   Synonyms: اولو (ulu), ایری (iri), بالابان (balaban), بیوك (büyük), قوجه (koca)

2. (literary) tall, having a vertical extent greater than the average, having a relatively great height

   Synonyms: اوزون (uzun), اوزون بویلو (uzun boylu)

3. (literary) (of a living creature) old, aged, eldern, having existed for a relatively long period of time

   Synonyms: اختیار (ihtiyâr), قوجه (koca), یاشلو (yaşlı)

Derived terms

• بزرك دل (büzürg dil, “large-hearted”)
• بزرك منش (büzürg meniş, “noble-minded”)
• بزرك همت (büzürg himmet, “great of purpose”)
• بزركان (büzürgân, “kings, princes, grandees”)
• بزركانه (büzürgâne, “grand, befitting a great man”)
• بزركزاده (büzürgzâde, “highborn”)
• بزركسال (büzürgsâl, “old in years”)
• بزركوار (büzürgvâr, “powerful, illustrious”)
• بزركی (büzürgî, “greatness”)

Descendants

• Turkish: büzürg

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “büzürg”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 735
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “basît”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 89
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بزرك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 264
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Magnus”, 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 986
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بزرك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 808
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بزرك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 362