پورچك
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier بورچك (bürçek), from Proto-Turkic *bürçek (“curl, forelock”),[1] itself a development of *bur- (“to twist, to wring”), whence بورمق (burmak, “to twist, wring”).
Noun
[edit]پورچك • (pürçek) (definite accusative پورچكی (pürçeği), plural پورچكلر (pürçekler))
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: pürçek
References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bürçek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 357
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پورچك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 414
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pürçek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3915
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pürçek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پورچك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 456