قورشون

Ottoman Turkish

قورشون

Alternative forms

• قورشوم (kurşum)

Etymology

From Common Turkic *qorɣušïn (“lead”), from Proto-Turkic *korguĺčïn (“lead”); cognate with Azerbaijani qurğuşun, Bashkir ҡурғаш (qurğaş), Karakhanid قُرُغْژٖينْ, Kazakh қорғасын (qorğasyn), Kyrgyz коргошун (korgoşun), Uyghur قوغۇشۇن (qoghushun) and Uzbek qoʼrgʼoshin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuɾˈʃun]
• Hyphenation: kur‧şun

Noun

قورشون • (kurşun)

1. lead, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal

   Synonyms: اسرب (usrub), رصاص (rasas)

2. bullet, a projectile shot from a gun at high speed

   Synonym: مرمی (mermi)

3. black lead or graphite points for pencils

Derived terms

• قورشونجی (kurşuncu, “caster of lead”)
• قورشونلتمق (kurşunlatmak, “to be sealed with lead”)
• قورشونلمق (kurşunlamak, “to seal with lead”)
• قورشونلو (kurşunlu, “mixed with lead”)
• قورشونی (kurşuni, “pertaining to lead”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kurşun
• Gagauz: kurşum
• → Armenian: խուռշին (xuṙšin)
• → Bulgarian: куршу́м (kuršúm)
• → Macedonian: куршум (kuršum)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ку̀ршум

  Latin script: kùršum

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurşun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2849
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قورشون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 373b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورشون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 979
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Plumbum”, 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 1309
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قورشون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3788
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kurşun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورشون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1483