كورش
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]- կիւրէշ (güreş), կիւլէշ (güleş) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *küreš (“wrestling”), from Proto-Turkic *küreš- (“to wrestle”). Cognate with Azerbaijani güləş, Bashkir көрәш (körəş), Chuvash кӗреш (kĕreš), Kazakh күрес (küres), Kyrgyz күрөш (küröş), Turkmen göreş, Tuvan хүреш (xüreş), Uyghur كۈرەش (küresh), Uzbek kurash and Yakut күрэс (küres).
Noun
[edit]كورش • (güreş) (definite accusative كورشی (güreşi), plural كورشلر (güreşler))
- wrestling, a sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points
- Synonym: كستی (küsti)
Derived terms
[edit]- كورش ایتمك (güreş etmek, “to figth, wrestle”)
- كورشجی (güreşci, “wrestler”)
Related terms
[edit]- كورشمك (güreşmek, “to fight, wrestle”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: güreş
- → Armenian: (Constantinople) կիւլէշ (kiwlēš), (Van) գո̈ւլա̈շ (güläš), (Nor Nakhichevan) կուռաշ (kuṙaš)
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كورش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 658
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “güreş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1809
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كورش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 400a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كورش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1049
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lucta”, 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 977
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كورش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4062
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güreş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كورش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1586