پورصوق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پورصق (porsuk), پورسوق (porsuk), پورسق (porsuk), بورصوق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورصق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورسوق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورسق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *borsuk (“badger”).

Noun

پورصوق • (porsuk)

1. badger
2. (usually ⁓ آغاجی (ağacı)) yew

Usage notes

Occasionally up into Modern Turkish, the name of the yew, bursuk ağacı or borsuk ağacı, though etymologically identical, is distinguished in its transcription from the name of the animal porsuk and thus not a homophone and within these cases sometimes not a homograph.

Descendants

• Turkish: porsuk
• → Armenian: փորսուղ (pʻorsuġ)
• → Bulgarian: борсу̀к (borsùk), бърсу̀к (bǎrsùk)
• → Lithuanian: barsukas
• → Macedonian: бурсук (bursuk)
• → Romanian: bursuc
• → Ukrainian: борсу́к (borsúk)
  • → Polish: borsuk

References

• Alkayış, Fatih (2007) Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), doctoral thesis, Kayseri: T.C. Erciyes Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, page 519
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پورصق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 457