زوكرت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كوكورت, زوگرت, زوگورت, زوكورت (züğürt)

Etymology

From Armenian ձախորդ (jaxord).

Adjective

زوكرت • (züğürt)

1. poor, indigent

Descendants

• Turkish: züğürt, zügürt, züyüt
• → Armenian: զիւյիւրտ (ziwyiwrt) (Constantinople), զիւկիւրտ (ziwkiwrt), զո̈ւգ^յո̈ւրթ (züg^yürtʻ) (Karabakh)
• → Bulgarian: зюрт (zjurt)
• → Serbo-Croatian: zùđurt, zuđur, zuđut
• → North Levantine Arabic: زغورت (zgört)
• → South Levantine Arabic: زغورت (zgurt)

References

• Deny, Jean (1921) Grammaire de la langue turque (dialecte osmanli), Paris: Leroux, § 49, page 55
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “züğürt”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 471b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “züğürt”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 533a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زوكرت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1019
• Słuszkiewicz, Eugeniusz (1938) “Remarques sur la langue turque des Arméniens et sur les emprunts turcs de l'arménien”, in Rocznik Orientalistyczny‎^[2] (in French), volume 14, published 1939, pages 152–154