چرك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چرک (čerk, “dirt; pus”).

Noun

چرك • (çirk)

1. dirt, filth, squalor, any foul matter which soils or defiles

   Synonyms: پیسلك (pislik), كیر (kir), مردارلق (murdarlık)

2. pus, a liquid substance found in regions of bacterial infection

   Synonyms: ایرك (iriñ), جراحات (cerahat)

3. rust, tarnish, the deteriorated state of iron or steel due to oxidation

Derived terms

• چرك آلود (çirk alud, “soiled, filthy”)
• چرك دنیا (çirk-i dünya, “world of vanities”)
• چركاب (çirkab, “dirty water”)
• چركلتمك (çirkletmek, “to soil”)
• چركلنمك (çirklenmek, “to become soiled”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çirk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çirk2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1008
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چرك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 182a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چرك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 469
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Squalor”, 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 1589
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چرك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1602
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چرك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 717