مراق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Compare Azerbaijani maraq, Uzbek maroq. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

مراق • (merak)

1. curiosity
2. whim, caprice
3. fancy, passion, engrossing occupation
4. monomania
5. fear or anxiety

Descendants

• Turkish: merak
• → Albanian: merak
• → Armenian: մէռաք / մեռաք (mēṙakʻ), մէրաք / մերաք (mērakʻ), մերախ / մէրախ (merax), մա̈ռա̈խ (mäṙäx)
• → Georgian: მერაყი (meraq̇i) — Adjara
• → Ladino: merekia
• → Greek: μεράκι (meráki)
• → Laz: მერაღი (meraği)
• → Macedonian: мерак (merak)
• → Serbo-Croatian: mèrāk / мѐра̄к
• → Bulgarian: мерак (merak)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مراق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1144
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1799