اریك

See also: اریک and ازيك

Ottoman Turkish

اریك

Alternative forms

• ارك (erük), اوروك (örük)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *erük (“plum, apricot”); cognate with Bashkir өрөк (örök), Kazakh өрік (örık), Kyrgyz өрүк (örük), Turkmen erik, Uyghur ئۆرۈك (örük) and Uzbek oʻrik.

Noun

اریك • (erik)

1. plum, the edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica

   Synonym: آلو (alu)

Derived terms

• آماسیه اریكی (Amasya eriği, “plum of Amasya”)
• اریك آغاجی (erik ağacı, “plum tree”)
• اریكلك (eriklik, “orchard of plum trees”)
• بارداق اریكی (bardak eriği, “kind of large plum”)
• جان اریكی (can eriği, “cherry plum”)
• فرنك اریكی (frenk eriği, “greengage”)
• قورو اریك (kuru erik, “dried plum, prune”)
• چقال اریكی (çakal eriği, “unripe plum”)
• یابان اریكی (yaban eriği, “wild plum”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: erik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “erik4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1466
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “اریك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 25a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اریك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 70
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Prunum”, 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, Vienna, column 1396
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اریك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 153
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “erik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اریك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 76