цюрк

Belarusian

Alternative forms

• ciurk — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *türi- (“lineage, ancestry”), likely via Ottoman Turkish ترك (türk). Compare Russian and Ukrainian тюрк (tjurk). Doublet of турак (turak), possibly an inherited form from Proto-Slavic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡sʲurk]

Noun

цюрк • (cjurk) m inan (genitive цю́рка, nominative plural цю́ркі, genitive plural цю́ркаў, feminine цюрча́нка, relational adjective цю́ркскі)

1. Turk (member of the ethnolinguistic community which speaks Turkic languages)

Declension

Declension of цюрк (inan velar masc-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	цюрк cjurk	цю́ркі cjúrki
genitive	цю́рка cjúrka	цю́ркаў cjúrkaŭ
dative	цю́рку cjúrku	цю́ркам cjúrkam
accusative	цюрк cjurk	цю́ркі cjúrki
instrumental	цю́ркам cjúrkam	цю́ркамі cjúrkami
locative	цю́рку cjúrku	цю́рках cjúrkax
count form	—	цю́ркі1 cjúrki1

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

Related terms

Turkic

• цюркало́гія (cjurkalóhija)
• цюркі́зм (cjurkízm)
• цюрко́лаг (cjurkólah)
• цю́ркскі (cjúrkski)
• цюрча́нка (cjurčánka)

 

Turkish

• ту́рак (túrak)
• Ту́рцыя (Túrcyja)
• турча́нка (turčánka)
• турэ́цкі (turécki)

 

References

• “цюрк”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “цюрк” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org