كورفز

Borrowed from Greek κόρφος (kórfos, “chest, breast”), ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “chest, breast; gulf”).

كورفز • (körfez)

1. (geography) gulf, bay, inlet, a portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land

   Synonym: قوی (koy)

• Turkish: körfez
• → Armenian: քեօրֆիզ (kʻeōrfiz), քէօրֆէզ (kʻēōrfēz)

كورفز • (Körfez)

1. Körfez (a town and district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey)

• Turkish: Körfez

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “körfez”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2792
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “körfez”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 259b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كورفز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1049
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sinus”, 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 1562
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كورفوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4063
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “körfez”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Körfez”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كورفز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1588
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Körfez”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[6], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 488

Borrowed from Italian Corfù.

كورفز • (Körfüz)

1. Corfu (an island of the Ionian Islands region, Greece)

• Turkish: Körfüz

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corcyra”, 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^[7], Vienna, column 288
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كورفز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1588