kırk

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kırk, “forty”), from Proto-Turkic *kïrk (“forty”).

kırk

1. forty

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قرق (kırk, “forty; many”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kırk, “forty”), from Proto-Turkic *kïrk (“forty”).

• IPA^(key): /kɯɾk/, [kʰɯ̽ɾ̞̊k]

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kırk

1. forty (in idiomatic expressions it often relates to an unspecified number)

• (idiomatic expressions)
• kırk kere (sordu) ((asked for) umpteen, untold times)
• kırk dereden su getirmek (make all kinds of excuses, literally “carry water from forty different creeks”)
• kılı kırk yarma (finicalness; split hairs)
• kırk yıllık kani olur mu yani (you can not teach an old dog a new trick)
• yalancı kırk yılda bir doğru söylese de inanan olmaz (liar is not believed even when he tells the truth)
• kırk yılda bir (once in a blue moon)
• kırk yıl düşünsem aklıma gelmezdi (beat all, not even in one's wildest dreams) (for better or worse)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قرق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 954