çukur

See also: cukur

Albanian

çukur (masculine adjectival i çukur, feminine singular e çukur, masculine plural të çukur, feminine plural të çukura)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish چوقور (çukur, “hole, pit, hollow”), from Proto-Turkic *čukur (“hole, cavity, depression”), a derivation from *čok- (“to delve, dig”).^[1]

Cognates

çukur (definite accusative çukuru, plural çukurlar)

hole, pit, hollow, cavity, depression, sump, a place located at a lower level than its surroundings
Synonyms: çah, hufre
hollow, glen, gully, dale, a secluded and narrow valley or a depression between hills
Near-synonyms: dere, vadi
(anatomy) fovea, fossa, any slight depression or pit in the human body
(figuratively) synonym of mezar (“grave, tomb”)

Proper nouns

idiomatic uses of "çukur"

^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “çukur”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 409

“çukur”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “çukur”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çukur1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1056
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çukur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük