انكور

See also: انگور

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian انگور (angur, “grape”), from Middle Persian ʾngwl (angūr), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *angaura- (“vine, grape”).

Noun

انكور • (engûr) (definite accusative انكوری (engûru), plural انكورلر (engûrlar))

1. grape, a small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit of the genus Vitis, that grows in bunches on vines

   Synonyms: اوزوم (üzüm), عنب (ʼineb)

Derived terms

• آب انكور (ab-ı engûr, “wine”)
• انكورك (engûrek, “pimple, boil; pupil”)

Descendants

• Turkish: engur

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “engur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1451
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “engûr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 266
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “انكور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 166
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Uva”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1799
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “انكور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 469
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “انكور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 229