كرك

From Ottoman Turkish كورك (kürk, “fur”).

• IPA^(key): /kurk/

كُرْك • (kurk) m (plural أَكْراك (ʔakrāk))

1. (archaic) a robe of fur, a stuffed mantle, a pelt ferace [16th–20th century]

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “كرك”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 457–458
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎^[2] (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, →DOI, pages 382–383

From Proto-Turkic *kẹrgek (“needed, necessary”), from *kẹrge- (“to need”).

كرك • (gäräk)

1. necessary

   XIII^th century [from a XV^th century copy], Ahmed Fakih, Çarhnâme-i Ahmed Fakıh der Bîvefâî-i Rûzigâr; republished as Mecdut Mansuroğlu, editor, Ahmed Fakih. Çarhname, İstanbul: Pulhan Matbaası, 1956, page 8:

   اولوم بر قاپودور كچمك كركدر
   برابر انده سلطانیله چوپان

   Ölüm bir qapudur, gäčmäk gäräkdür
   bärābär anda sulṭān ile čōpān.

        Death is a gate, one has to pass through [it]
        A sultan and a shepherd are equal in it.

• Azerbaijani: gərək
• Gagauz: gerek
• Ottoman Turkish: گرك (gerek)
  • Turkish: gerek

From Proto-Turkic *kẹrgek (“needed, necessary”), from *gẹrge- (“to need”).

گرك • (gerek)

1. necessity, need, requirement, demand

گرك • (gerek)

1. necessary, required, due

• Turkish: gerek

گرك • (gürk, gürük)

1. alternative spelling of گورك (gürk, gürük, “pulchritude”)

• گركلو (gürklü, “beautiful, fair”)

كرك • (kürek)

1. alternative spelling of كورك (kürek, “shovel; oar”)

كرك • (kürk)

1. alternative spelling of كورك (kürk, “fur”)

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 3922–3923
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “كرك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 745