сирек

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Bashkir

Etymology

From Persian چهاریک (čahâryek), چاریک (čâryek), چارک (čârak, one fourth).

Cognate with Kazakh ширек (şirek), Uzbek chorak (one fourth, quarter).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: си‧рек

Noun

сирек (sirek)

  1. quarter, one fourth
  2. (high school) school term (there are four such terms in an academic year)
  3. (moon phase) quarter

Declension

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic سيرەك
Cyrillic сирек
Latin sirek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sedrek (rare). Cognate with Tatar сирәк (siräk), Bashkir һирәк (hirək), Kyrgyz сейрек (seyrek), Uzbek siyrak, Turkish seyrek, Azerbaijani seyrək, Turkmen seýrek (rare), etc.

Adjective

сирек (sirek)

  1. sparse, rare

Derived terms