قوكور

See also: قوڭۇر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قوكر (koñur)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *koŋur (“brown”).

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani qonur, Bashkir ҡуңыр (quñır), Chuvash хӑмӑр (hămăr), Kazakh қоңыр (qoñyr), Kyrgyz коңур (koŋur), Turkmen goňur, Uyghur قوڭۇر (qo'ngur) and Uzbek qoʻngʻir.

Adjective

قوكور • (koñur)

1. swarthy, dusky, sooty, having a shade of color that is rather dark

   Synonyms: اسمر (esmer), یاغیز (yağız)

2. brown, of a color that is like that of chocolate or coffee

   Synonym: قهوه رنكی (kahve rengi)

3. grayish, grayey, of a color close to gray

Derived terms

• قوكور آلپ (koñur alp, “the name of an Ottoman warrior”)
• قوكورلق (koñurluk, “swarthiness”)

Descendants

• Turkish: konur (dialectal)

See also

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویا بویلر (boyalar) (layout · text)

آق (ak)	بوز (boz)	قره (kara)
قزل (kızıl); آل (al)	ترنجی (türünci); قوڭور (koñur)	صاری (sarı)
	یشیل (yeşil)
	گوك (gök)	ماوی (mavi)
مور (mor)	افلاطون (eflatun)	پنبه (pembe)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “قوكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 569
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “konur2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2739
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قوكور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 986
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قوكور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1491