قورساق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kurgsak (“belly, stomach”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰍𐰽𐰴 (quruɣsaq), Azerbaijani qursaq, Karakhanid قُرُغْساقْ (quruɣsaq), Kyrgyz курсак (kursak) and Yakut куртах (kurtaq).

Noun

قورساق • (kursak)

1. crop, a pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds

   Synonyms: حوصله (havsala), قانصه (kanisa)

2. (colloquial) stomach, the organ in the body that stores food

   Synonyms: قارن (karn), معده (mi'de)

3. membrane prepared from a bladder, as the goldbeater's skin

Derived terms

• قورساقسز (kursaksız, “ravenous, voracious”)
• قورساقلو (kursaklı, “possesed of a crop or maw”)
• قورو قورساق (kuru kursak, “dry membrane used like tissue paper”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kursak
• → Armenian: խուրսախ (xursax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kursak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2849
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورساق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 979
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stomachus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1600
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قورساق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3788
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kursak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورساق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485