بورچاق

Ottoman Turkish

بورچاق

Alternative forms

• بورجاق (burcak), بورچق (burçak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *burčak (“bean, pea”).

Cognates

Cognate with Bashkir борсаҡ (borsaq), Chuvash пӑрҫа (părś̬a), Kazakh бұршақ (būrşaq), Kyrgyz буурчак (buurcak), Southern Altai мырчак (mïrčak), Turkmen burçak, Uyghur پۇرچاق (purchaq) and Uzbek burchoq.

Noun

بورچاق • (burçak) (definite accusative بورچاغی (burçağı), plural بورچاقلر (burçaklar))

1. vetch, any of several leguminous plants of the genus Vicia

   Synonym: فیك (fiğ)

Derived terms

• آق بورچاق (ak burçak, “chickling vetch”)
• قره بورچاق (kara burçak, “bitter vetch”)

Descendants

• Turkish: burçak
• → Middle Armenian: պուռչախ (puṙčʻax)

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “بورچاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 323
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “burçak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 700
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “بورچق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 129b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بورچاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 283
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Vicia”, 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 1754
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بورچاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 913
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “burçak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بورچاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 394