كورك

Arabic

Noun

كُورِك • (kūrik) m (plural كُورِكَات (kūrikāt))

1. alternative spelling of كُورِيك (kūrīk)

Declension

Declension of noun كُورِك (kūrik)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	كُورِك kūrik	الْكُورِك al-kūrik	كُورِك kūrik
Nominative	كُورِكٌ kūrikun	الْكُورِكُ al-kūriku	كُورِكُ kūriku
Accusative	كُورِكًا kūrikan	الْكُورِكَ al-kūrika	كُورِكَ kūrika
Genitive	كُورِكٍ kūrikin	الْكُورِكِ al-kūriki	كُورِكِ kūriki
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	كُورِكَيْن kūrikayn	الْكُورِكَيْن al-kūrikayn	كُورِكَيْ kūrikay
Nominative	كُورِكَانِ kūrikāni	الْكُورِكَانِ al-kūrikāni	كُورِكَا kūrikā
Accusative	كُورِكَيْنِ kūrikayni	الْكُورِكَيْنِ al-kūrikayni	كُورِكَيْ kūrikay
Genitive	كُورِكَيْنِ kūrikayni	الْكُورِكَيْنِ al-kūrikayni	كُورِكَيْ kūrikay
Plural	sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	كُورِكَات kūrikāt	الْكُورِكَات al-kūrikāt	كُورِكَات kūrikāt
Nominative	كُورِكَاتٌ kūrikātun	الْكُورِكَاتُ al-kūrikātu	كُورِكَاتُ kūrikātu
Accusative	كُورِكَاتٍ kūrikātin	الْكُورِكَاتِ al-kūrikāti	كُورِكَاتِ kūrikāti
Genitive	كُورِكَاتٍ kūrikātin	الْكُورِكَاتِ al-kūrikāti	كُورِكَاتِ kūrikāti

Ottoman Turkish

كورك

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kürgek (“shovel”), a development of *küre- (“to rake”), whence كوره‌مك (küremek, “to rake”). Cognate with Azerbaijani kürək, Bashkir көрәк (körək), Kazakh күрек (kürek), Kyrgyz күрөк (kürök), Uzbek kurak and Yakut күрдьэх (kürjeq).

Alternative forms

• كوراك (kürek), كوره‌ك (kürek), كرك (kürek)

Noun

كورك • (kürek)

2. shovel, hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material

   Synonyms: بیل (bil), مجرفه (micrefe)

4. spade, a garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging

   Synonyms: بیل (bil), مجرفه (micrefe)

6. oar, paddle, a type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade and a handle

   Synonym: مجداف (micdaf)

8. (figuratively) hard labour, drudgery, toil, exhausting, menial, and tedious work

   Synonyms: آنغاریه (angarya), حقلمه (haklama), زحمت (zahmet), زورلق (zorluk), صالغم (salğım), كلفت (külfet)

10. ♠, spades, one of the four suits in card- and boardgames

    Synonym: ماچه (maça)

Coordinate terms

Suits in Ottoman Turkish · طاقیم (takım) (layout · text)
قوپه (kupa)	اوریا (orya)	ماچه (maça), كورك (kürek)	اسپاتی (ispati), سیڭك (siñek)

Derived terms

• كورك جزاسی (kürek cezası, “punishment of the galleys”)
• كورك كمیكی (kürek kemiği, “shoulder blade”)
• كورك چكمك (kürek çekmek, “to row”)
• كوركچی (kürekçi, “oarsman, rower”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kürek
• → Albanian: qyrek
• → Arabic: كُورِيك (kūrīk), كُرِيك (kurīk), كُورِك (kūrik)
• → Armenian: քյուրեկ (kʻyurek)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kürek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2902
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 400a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1049
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pala”, 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 1233
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4063
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kürek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1586

كورك

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kürk (“fur, pelt”); cognate with Azerbaijani kürk.

Alternative forms

• كرك (kürk)

Noun

كورك • (kürk)

2. fur, pelt, the hairy coat of a mammal, especially when fine, soft and thick
3. fur, hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans
4. fur coat, an outer garment for the upper body made of fur

   Synonym: فروه (ferve)

Derived terms

• ایچ كوركی (iç kürkü, “light fur garment”)
• سمور كوركی (samur kürkü, “sable fur”)
• قاقم كوركی (kakım kürkü, “ermine fur”)
• كورك صرچه‌سی (kürk sırçası, “white fluff in a fur”)
• كورك گیدرمك (kürk giydirmek, “to make or let a fur be worn”)
• كوركجی (kürkcü, “furrier”)
• كوركلمك (kürklemek, “to line with fur”)
• كوركلو (kürklü, “coated with fur”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kürk
• → Albanian: qyrk
• → Arabic: كُرْك (kurk)
• → Armenian: քուրք (kʻurkʻ)
• → Aromanian: ḱúrcu
• → Bulgarian: кюрк (kjurk)
• → Georgian: ქურქი (kurki)
• → Macedonian: ќурк (ḱurk)
• → Romanian: chiurec
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: ćùrak

  Cyrillic script: ћу̀рак

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kürk1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2904
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 400a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1049
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pellicea vestis”, 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^[8], Vienna, column 1261
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, columns 4063-4064
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kürk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1586

Etymology 3

From گورمك (gevremek, “to become crisp, fragile”).

Adjective

گورك • (gevrek)

1. fragile, frail, brittle, friable

Derived terms

• گوركلك (gevreklik, “friability”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gevrek
• Serbo-Croatian: đevrek
• Macedonian: ѓеврек (ǵevrek)

Etymology 4

Cognate to Uzbek koʻrk (“beauty, pulchritude”).

Alternative forms

• گرك (gürk, gürük), گوروك (gürk, gürük)

Noun

گورك • (gürk, gürük)

1. beauty, pulchritude, pleasing features

Usage notes

Marked already by Meninski 1680 as rarely in use and nearly obsolete.

Derived terms

• گوركلو (gürklü, “beautiful, fair”)

Descendants

• Turkish: körk

Etymology 5

Noun

گورك • (görek)

1. view, how something looks from the outside, appearance

Etymology 6

Noun

كورك • (körük)

2. Alternative spelling of كوروك (körük, “bellows”)

Further reading

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• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[11], Vienna, column 4064
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[12], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1587

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[13], Vienna, columns 3922–3923
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[14], Vienna, columns 4063–4064
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “كرك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 745
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “كورك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 769–770