قرق
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]| < 30 | 40 | 50 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : قرق | ||
Alternative forms
[edit]- قیرق (kırk)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïrk (“forty”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰃𐰺𐰴 (qir¹q), Azerbaijani qırx, Bashkir ҡырҡ (qırq), Chuvash хӗрӗх (hĕrĕh), Kazakh қырық (qyryq), Kyrgyz кырк (kırk), Turkmen kyrk, Uyghur قىرىق (qiriq) and Uzbek qirq.
Numeral
[edit]قرق • (kırk)
- forty, fourty, the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one
- (figuratively) many, numerous, an indeterminate term for a considerable quantity
Derived terms
[edit]- قرق آیاق (kırk ayak, “centipede; millipede”)
- قرق انبار (kırk ambar, “dealer in marine stores”)
- قرق بایر (kırk bayır, “manyplies, omasum”)
- قرق بیك (kırk biñ, “forty thousand; many”)
- قرق كلید (kırk kilid, “horsetail”)
- قرق كچید (kırk geçid, “a very winding river”)
- قرق نردبان (kırk nerdiban, “very steep ascend”)
- قرق چشمه (kırk çeşme, “system of public fountains in Istanbul”)
- قرقر (kırkar, “forty each”)
- قرقلاتمق (kırklatmak, “to cause or allow to become forty”)
- قرقلامق (kırklamak, “to make (a thing) forty”)
- قرقلر (kırklar, “the Forty Saints”)
- قرقلق (kırklık, “coin of forty piastres”)
- قرقنجی (kırkıncı, “fortieth”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kırk
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قرق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 508
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kırk2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2623
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قرق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 361b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قرق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 954
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Quadraginta”, 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 1415
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قرق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3672
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kırk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1446