كردك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian گردک (gerdak, “tent; bridechamber”).

Noun

كردك • (gerdek)

1. bridechamber

Descendants

• Turkish: gerdek
• → Albanian: gjerdek
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ђѐрдек

  Latin script: đèrdek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gerdek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1686
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “gjerdek”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 172
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كردك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1020
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كردك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3912
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gerdek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كردك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1536