قوری

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

قورو (koru)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kōrïg (“enclosure, enclosed area”),^[1] a word related to *kōrï- (“to protect”), whence قوریمق (korumak, “to protect, defend”). Cognate with Old Turkic (korïg), Azerbaijani qoruq and Uzbek qoʻriq.

Noun

قوری • (korı or koru)

reserve, paddock, enclosure, a piece of meadow or forest kept for private use and often guarded or fenced

Derived terms

قوریجی (korucu, “reserve keeper”)
قوریلق (koruluk, “wooded district”)

Descendants

Turkish: koru
→ Albanian: korié, kori
→ Aromanian: curíe
→ Bulgarian: кори́я (koríja) (regional)
→ Greek: κουρί n (kourí) (Thracia, Macedonia, Epirus)
→ Macedonian: корија (korija)
→ Serbo-Croatian: (Southeast Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria)
Cyrillic script: ко́рија

Latin script: kórija

References

^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “korığ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 652

Persian

Etymology

Altered, since this is spoken in Modern Iranian Persian identically, from (ğôri, “a sort of porcelain”), from Japanese 屈輪, 倶利 (guri, “a kind of curved lacquer design used in 堆朱 (tsuishu, “red lacquer carving”) and 堆黒 (tsuikoku, “black lacquer carving”)”).

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