بزرك
See also: بزرگ
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- պիւզիւրկ (büzürg), պիւզիւրք (büzürk) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian بُزُرْگ (buzurg, “large, big, great”)
Adjective
بزرك • (büzürg)(literary)
- large, big, great, grand, voluminous
- tall
- Synonyms: اوزون (uzun), اوزون بویلو (uzun boylu)
- (of a living creature) old, aged, eldern
Derived terms
- بزرك منش (büzürg meniş, “noble-minded”)
- بزركان (büzürgân, “kings, princes, grandees”)
- بزركانه (büzürgâne, “grand, befitting a great man”)
- بزركزاده (büzürgzâde, “highborn”)
- بزركسال (büzürgsâl, “old in years”)
- بزركوار (büzürgvâr, “powerful, illustrious”)
- بزركی (büzürgî, “greatness”)
Further reading
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “büzürg”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 735
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “basît”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 89
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بزرك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 264
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Magnus”, 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 986
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بزرك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 808
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بزرك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 362