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Crimean Tatar
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *sirke (“vinegar”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sirke
- vinegar
Declension
References
Middle English
Noun
sirke
- Alternative form of serk
Turkish
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish سركه (sirke, “vinegar”), from Proto-Turkic *sirke (“vinegar, acid”).[1]
Cognate with Old Turkic (sirke), Azerbaijani sirkə (“vinegar”), Bashkir һеркә (herkə, “vinegar”), Uzbek sirka (“vinegar”), Kazakh сірке (sırke, “vinegar”), Turkmen sirke (“vinegar”), etc. Compare Chuvash шарак (šarak, “bitter; salt”). Akin to Persian سرکه (serke); according to Doerfer the direction of a possible borrowing is not clear.[2]
Noun
sirke (definite accusative sirkeyi, plural sirkeler)
- vinegar (condiment)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Ottoman Turkish سركه (sirke, “nit”), from Proto-Turkic *sirke (“nit”).[3]
Noun
sirke (definite accusative sirkeyi, plural sirkeler)
- nit (egg of a louse)
Declension
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill: “*sū̀re”
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sirke1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill: “*si̯ằjrí”