یورك

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yürek.

Noun

یُورَكْ (yüräk)

1. (anatomy) heart
2. bravery

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: ürək
• Gagauz: ürek
• Ottoman Turkish: یورك (yürek)
  • Turkish: yürek
  • → Ladino: yurek

Ottoman Turkish

یورك

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یُورَكْ (yüräk), from Proto-Turkic *yürek (“heart”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yüräk), Azerbaijani ürək, Bashkir йөрәк (yörək), Kazakh жүрек (jürek), Kyrgyz жүрөк (jürök), Turkmen ýürek, Uyghur يۈرەك (yürek), Uzbek yurak and Yakut сүрэх (süreq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jyˈɾɛc/

Noun

یورك • (yürek) (definite accusative یوركی (yüreği), plural یوركلر (yürekler))

1. heart, a muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion

   Synonyms: قلب (kalb), كوكل (göñül)

2. (by extension) heart, bosom, breast, the figurative seat of one's inner thoughts, secret feelings, desires, etc.;

   Synonym: كوكل (göñül)

3. (figuratively) heart, spirit, guts, pluck, emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations

Derived terms

• یورك آغریسی (yürek ağrısı, “heartache”)
• یورك اوینامق (yürek oynamak, “for one's heart, to flutter”)
• یورك بولانمق (yürek bulanmak, “to suffer from a heartache”)
• یورك قاتلمق (yürek katılmak, “to suffer greatly”)
• یورك قبارمق (yürek kabarmak, “to be nauseated”)
• یورك قره‌سی (yürek karası, “wickedness, depravity”)
• یورك قوردی (yürek kurdu, “intestinal worm”)
• یورك ویرمك (yürek virmek, “to give courage”)
• یورك چرپندیسی (yürek çarpındısı, “fluttering of the heart”)
• یوركسز (yüreksiz, “timid, coward”)
• یوركلندرمك (yüreklendirmek, “to embolden”)
• یوركلنمك (yüreklenmek, “to become bold”)
• یوركلی (yürekli, “bold, courageous”)
• یوركی قاتی (yüreği katı, “obdurate, obstinate”)
• یوركی قوپمق (yüreği kopmak, “to suffer greatly”)
• یوركی پك (yüreği pek, “hard-hearted”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yürek
• → Ladino: yurek

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 889
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yürek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5404
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 512b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1362
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cor”, 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 285
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5617
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yürek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2213