bucak

From Turkish bucak, from Ottoman Turkish بوجاق, literally meaning "corner", from Proto-Turkic *būč-gak, from *būč- or *bïč-.

bucak (plural bucaks)

1. (historical) A subdistrict of a district within a Turkish province.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بوجاق (bucak, “angle, corner, nook”), itself from Proto-Turkic *būčgak (“corner, angle”). Cognate with Tatar почмак (poçmaq), Uyghur بۇرجەك (burjek), and Uzbek burchak.

• Hyphenation: bu‧cak

bucak (definite accusative bucağı, plural bucaklar)

1. (geometry) angle, a figure formed by two rays which start from a common point

   Synonym: köşe

2. corner, nook, the space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point

   köşe bucak aramak ― to scour every corner

   1948, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Nur Baba‎^[1], page 18:

   Kalk, biz kendimiz için sakin bir bucak bulalım.

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3. (historical) bucak, township, a subdistrict of a district within a province

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bucak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 682
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bucak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük