بورك

Ottoman Turkish

بوركلر

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bögürek, a diminutive of *bögür (“kidney”), whence بوگور (böğür, “side, flank”), based on the similar shape of the pastry to the organs. Probably unrelated to Slavic pierogi.

Etymology 2

From Middle Iranian *pūrag, a type of filled pastry, such as شکربوره (šakarpura, a sweet dough filled with almonds and pistachios). Cognate with Sanskrit पूरिका (pūrikā). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

بورك • (börek)

1. burek, a type of baked or fried filled pastry typical of the former Ottoman Empire
2. (in general) pastry, a baked food item made from flour and fat pastes, such as a pie crust

Derived terms

• اتلو بورك (etli börek, “patty stuffed with mince-meat”)
• بوركجی (börekci, “maker or seller of pastries”)
• تاتار بوركی (tatar böreği, “Tatar pie”)
• تنجره بوركی (tencere böreği, “vol-au-vent”)
• تپسی بوركی (tepsi böreği, “large kind of pie”)
• ساده بورك (sade börek, “kind of plain pastry”)
• ساقز بوركی (sakız böreği, “kind of cake of pastry”)
• پنیرلو بورك (penirli börek, “patty stuffed with cheese”)
• پوف بوركی (puf böreği, “pastry, cream puff”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: börek
• → Albanian: byrek
• → Armenian: բյորեկ (byorek), պէօրէկ (pēōrēk) — Western Armenian, traditional orthography; բորեկ (borek)
• → Aromanian: burecã
• → Bulgarian: бюре́к (bjurék)
• → English: burek, börek, borek, brik
• → German: Börek
• → Greek: μπουρέκι n (bouréki, “pie, pastie”)
• → Hijazi Arabic: بريك
• → Laz: ბურეღი (bureği)
• → Ladino: boreka
• → Macedonian: бурек (burek)
• → Persian: بورک (burâk)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бу̀рек

  Latin script: bùrek

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “börek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 676
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 130a
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎^[2] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 331 Nr. 781
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 283
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Artocrea”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 88
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 915
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “börek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395

Etymology 2

بورك

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *börük (“hat, cap”); cognate with Azerbaijani börk, Bashkir бүрек (bürek), Kazakh бөрік (börık), Kyrgyz бөрүк (börük), Turkmen bȫrik, Uyghur بۆك (bök), Uzbek burk and Yakut бэргэһэ (bergehe).

Noun

بورك • (börk)

1. kind of tall, conical cap made of fur or felt and typically worn by janissaries

   Synonym: كلاه (külah)

Derived terms

• بوركجی (börkcü, “maker or seller of conical hats”)
• سلطان بوركی (sultan börkü, “cock's comb”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: börk

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “börk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 677
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[7], Vienna: F. Beck, page 130a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[8], Constantinople: Mihran, page 283
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pileus”, 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^[9], Vienna, column 1300
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[10], Vienna, column 915
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “börk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[11], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395