قرق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Old Anatolian Turkish cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : قرق

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïrk.

Alternative forms

  • قرخ (qırḫ)

Numeral

قِرْقْ • (qırq)

  1. forty
Derived terms
  • قرق ایاقلو (qırq ayaqlu, tick)
  • قرق بایر (qırq bayır, a part of animal stomach)
  • قرق بوداق (qırq budaq, a big candlestick)
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: qırx
  • Gagauz: kırk
  • Ottoman Turkish: قرق (kırk), قیرق (kırk)

Further reading

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kırk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Kanar, Mehmet (2018) “kırk”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 438

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karak (eye, pupil).

Alternative forms

  • قاراق (qaraq), قراق (qaraq)

Noun

قرق • (qaraq) (definite accusative قرغی (qaraġı), plural قرقلر (qaraqlar))

  1. pupil
  2. gaze
    Synonym: باخش (baḫış)

Further reading

  • Kanar, Mehmet (2018) “karak”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 408
  • “karak”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977

Etymology 3

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karak (pillager)

Noun

قرق • (qaraq) (definite accusative قرغی (qaraġı), plural قرقلر (qaraqlar))

  1. thief
Descendants
  • Turkish: (dialectal) karak

Ottoman Turkish

Ottoman Turkish cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : قرق

Alternative forms

  • قیرق (kırk)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قرق (qırq), from Proto-Turkic *kïrk (forty). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰃𐰺𐰴 (qir¹q), Azerbaijani qırx, Bashkir ҡырҡ (qırq), Chuvash хӗрӗх (hĕrĕh), Kazakh қырық (qyryq), Kyrgyz кырк (kırk), Turkmen kyrk, Uyghur قىرىق (qiriq) and Uzbek qirq.

Numeral

قرق • (kırk)

  1. forty, fourty, the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one
    Synonyms: اربعون (erbeʼun), چهل (çihil)literary
  2. (figuratively) many, numerous, an indeterminate term for a considerable quantity

Derived terms

  • قرق آیاق (kırk ayak, centipede; millipede)
  • قرق انبار (kırk ambar, dealer in marine stores)
  • قرق بایر (kırk bayır, manyplies, omasum)
  • قرق بیك (kırk biñ, forty thousand; many)
  • قرق كلید (kırk kilid, horsetail)
  • قرق كچید (kırk geçid, a very winding river)
  • قرق نردبان (kırk nerdiban, very steep ascend)
  • قرق چشمه (kırk çeşme, system of public fountains in Istanbul)
  • قرقر (kırkar, forty each)
  • قرقلاتمق (kırklatmak, to cause or allow to become forty)
  • قرقلامق (kırklamak, to make (a thing) forty)
  • قرقلر (kırklar, the Forty Saints)
  • قرقلق (kırklık, coin of forty piastres)
  • قرقنجی (kırkıncı, fortieth)

Descendants

Further reading