yürek

See also: Yurek and ýürek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یورك‎ (yürek), from Proto-Turkic *yürek, *yür- (“heart; courage”).

Maybe related to Proto-Mongolic *jirüken (“heart”), whence Mongolian зүрх (zürx) and Daur jurgw. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Cognate with Azerbaijani ürək, Turkmen ýürek, Old Turkic [script needed] (yürek), Ladino yurek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jyˈɾɛc]

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Noun

yürek (definite accusative yüreği, plural yürekler)

1. heart
2. (idiomatic) courage

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	yürek
Definite accusative	yüreği
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	yürek	yürekler
Definite accusative	yüreği	yürekleri
Dative	yüreğe	yüreklere
Locative	yürekte	yüreklerde
Ablative	yürekten	yüreklerden
Genitive	yüreğin	yüreklerin

References

• Tokat, Feyza (2014), “On the Common Words in Mongolian and the Turkish Dialects in Turkey”, in The Journal of International Social Research (Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi)‎^[1], volume 7, issue 32, →ISSN, pages 185-198.
• Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎^[2], Utrecht: LOT