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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kurgsak (“belly, stomach”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰍𐰽𐰴 (quruɣsaq), Azerbaijani qursaq, Karakhanid قُرُغْساقْ (quruɣsaq), Kyrgyz курсак (kursak) and Yakut куртах (kurtaq).
Noun
قورساق • (kursak)
- crop, a pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds
- Synonyms: حوصله (havsala), قانصه (kanisa)
- (colloquial) stomach, the organ in the body that stores food
- Synonyms: قارن (karn), معده (mi'de)
- membrane prepared from a bladder, as the goldbeater's skin
Derived terms
- قورساقسز (kursaksız, “ravenous, voracious”)
- قورساقلو (kursaklı, “possesed of a crop or maw”)
- قورو قورساق (kuru kursak, “dry membrane used like tissue paper”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kursak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2849
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورساق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 979
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stomachus”, 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, Vienna, column 1600
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قورساق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3788
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kursak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورساق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485