پورچك

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

پورچك • (pürçek) (definite accusative پورچكی (pürçeği), plural پورچكلر (pürçekler))

  1. curl, ringlet, any curving piece or lock of hair
    Synonym: مار (mar)

Descendants

  • Turkish: pürçek

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bürçek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 357

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