çirk

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Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic чирк
Abjad چرک

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čẹr (rotten, foul; to rot; illness; dirt; to be sick, ill; rot; glue; anguish, sorrow) [1] whence also Azerbaijani çürümək (to rot); alternatively from Persian چرک (čerk). However, it has been proposed that the latter Persian term is a Turkic borrowing itself (ibid.).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡ʃirk], [t͡sirt͡ʃ]

Noun

çirk (definite accusative çirkni, plural çirklər)

  1. dirt, filth

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References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čẹr-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill