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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yürek (“heart”); cognate with Old Turkic (yüräk), Azerbaijani ürək, Bashkir йөрәк (yörək), Kazakh жүрек (jürek), Kyrgyz жүрөк (jürök), Turkmen ýürek, Uyghur يۈرەك (yürek), Uzbek yurak and Yakut сүрэх (süreq).
Pronunciation
Noun
یورك • (yürek)
- heart, a muscular organ that pumps blood through the body
- Synonyms: قلب (kalb), گوڭل (göñül)
- (fuguratively) spirit, courage, determination, fearlessness
- (by extension) stomach or bowels
Derived terms
- یوركسز (yüreksiz, “timid, coward”)
- یوركلندرمك (yüreklendirmek, “to embolden”)
- یوركلنمك (yüreklenmek, “to become bold”)
- یوركلی (yürekli, “bold, courageous”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yürek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5404
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 512b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1362
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cor”, 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 285
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5617
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yürek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2213