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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian چرک (čerk, “dirt; pus”).
Noun
چرك • (çirk)
- dirt, filth, squalor, any foul matter which soils or defiles
- Synonyms: پیسلك (pislik), كیر (kir), مردارلق (murdarlık)
- pus, a liquid substance found in regions of bacterial infection
- Synonyms: ایرك (iriñ), جراحات (cerahat)
- 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
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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 182a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چرك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, 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, 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, Vienna, column 1602
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چرك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 717