قورومق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قورو (kuru, “dry”).

Verb

قورومق • (kurumak) (third-person singular simple present قورور (kurur))

  1. to become dry; to dry up
    • 1923, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Nur Baba‎[1], page 19:
      صوفرامز چول كبی قورویوب قالدی، بر قطبره‌سی جانه جان قاته‌جق...
      Soframız çöl gibi kuruyup kaldı, bir katresi cana can katacak...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to wither
  3. (of a limb) to become paralyzed

Descendants

  • Turkish: kurumak

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورومق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 981b
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