انكور
See also: انگور
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian انگور (angur, “grape”), from Middle Persian ʾngwl (angūr), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *angaura- (“vine, grape”).
Noun
انكور • (engûr) (definite accusative انكوری (engûru), plural انكورلر (engûrlar))
- grape, a small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit of the genus Vitis, that grows in bunches on vines
Derived terms
- آب انكور (ab-ı engûr, “wine”)
- انكورك (engûrek, “pimple, boil; pupil”)
Descendants
- Turkish: engur
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “engur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1451
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “engûr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 266
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انكور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 166
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Uva”, 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[3], Vienna, column 1799
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انكور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 469
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انكور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 229