پورچك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

بورچك (bürçek), پورچاك (pürçak)

Etymology

From earlier بورچك (bürçek), from Proto-Turkic *bürçek (“curl, forelock”),^[1] itself a development of *bur- (“to twist, to wring”), whence بورمق (burmak, “to twist, wring”).

Noun

پورچك • (pürçek) (definite accusative پورچكی (pürçeği), plural پورچكلر (pürçekler))

curl, ringlet, any curving piece or lock of hair
Synonym: مار (mar)

Descendants

Turkish: pürçek

References

^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bürçek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 357

Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پورچك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 414
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pürçek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3915
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pürçek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پورچك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 456

[1] Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bürçek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 357

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