çirk
Azerbaijani
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
Noun
çirk (definite accusative çirkni, plural çirklər)
Declension
Declension of çirk
Possessive forms of çirk
Synonyms
Derived terms
- çirkli (“dirty”)
See also
- çirkin (“ugly”)
References
- ^ 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