قورقو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *korkug (“fear”), a development of *kork- (“to fear”), whence قورقمق (korkmak, “to fear”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qorxu, Southern Altai корку (korku), Turkmen gorky and Uzbek qoʻrquv.

Noun

قورقو • (korku)

1. fear, fright, terror, dread, an unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger

   Synonyms: بیم (bim), ترس (ters), خوف (havf), هراس (hıras)

2. threat, menace, an indication of potential or imminent danger that can harm a person
3. danger, peril, hazard, jeopardy, an impending exposure to likely harm, a lack of safety

   Synonyms: بیم (bim), تهلكه (tehlike), مخاطره (muhatara)

4. alarm, a sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger

Derived terms

• جان قورقوسی (can korkusu, “fear for one's own life”)
• قورقو ویرمك (korku virmek, “to frighten”)
• قورقو چیقارمق (korku çıkarmak, “to raise an alarm”)
• قورقوسز (korkusuz, “fearless, intrepid”)
• قورقولق (korkuluk, “scarecrow”)
• قورقولو (korkulu, “dangerous, perilous”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: korku

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “korku”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2748
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قورقو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 373b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورقو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 980
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Timor”, 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 1674
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قورقو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3790
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “korku”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورقو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484