قوروم

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From قورمق (kurmak, “to found, establish”).

Noun

قوروم • (kurum)

1. verbal noun of قورمق (kurmak, “to found, establish”):
   1. foundation, establishment, the act of founding or establishing

      Synonym: مؤسسه (müessese)

   2. arrangement, composition, particular way in which items are organized
   3. institution, a custom or practice of a society or community

Derived terms

• قورومسز (kurumsuz, “lacking arrangement”)
• قوروملو (kurumlu, “arranged, constitued”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kurum

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurum1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2857
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوروم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 981
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kurum2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوروم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kurum (“soot”); cognate with Azerbaijani qurum, Bashkir ҡором (qorom), Chuvash хӑрӑм (hărăm), Kazakh құрым (qūrym), Kyrgyz курум (kurum), Uyghur قۇرۇم (qurum), Uzbek qurum and Yakut курунньук (kurunnyuk).

Noun

قوروم • (kurum)

1. soot, lampblack, fine particles of amorphous carbon and tar

   Synonyms: ایس (is), دوده (dude)

Derived terms

• قورومسز (kurumsuz, “sootless”)
• قوروملو (kurumlu, “sooty”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kurum
• → Armenian: խուռում (xuṙum)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurum2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2857
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوروم”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[3], Vienna: F. Beck, page 374b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوروم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 981
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fuligo”, 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^[5], Vienna, column 627
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوروم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[6], Vienna, column 3792
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kurum1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوروم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485