قوری

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قورو (koru)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kōrïg (“enclosure, enclosed area”), a word related to *kōrï- (“to protect”), whence قوریمق (korumak, “to protect, defend”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (korïg), Azerbaijani qoruq and Uzbek qoʻriq.

Noun

قوری • (korı or koru)

1. reserve, paddock, enclosure, a piece of meadow or forest kept for private use and often guarded or fenced

Derived terms

• قوریجی (korucu, “reserve keeper”)
• قوریلق (koruluk, “wooded district”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: koru
• → Albanian: korié, kori
• → Aromanian: curíe
• → Bulgarian: кори́я (koríja) (regional)
• → Greek: κουρί n (kourí) (Thracia, Macedonia, Epirus)
• → Macedonian: корија (korija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (Southeast Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria)

  Cyrillic script: ко́рија

  Latin script: kórija

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koru2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2752
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 374a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 981
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Saltus”, 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 1504
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3792
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “koru”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484

Persian

Etymology

Altered, since this is spoken in Modern Iranian Persian identically, from غوری (ğôri, “a sort of porcelain”), from Japanese 屈輪, 倶利 (guri, “a kind of curved lacquer design used in 堆朱 (tsuishu, “red lacquer carving”) and 堆黒 (tsuikoku, “black lacquer carving”)”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [quː.ˈɾiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [quː.ɾíː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [quː.ɾíː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [quː.ɾíː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qu.ɾí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [quː.ɹíː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qu.ɾí]

Readings
Classical reading?	qūrī
Dari reading?	qūrī
Iranian reading?	ğuri
Tajik reading?	qurī

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Noun

قوری • (quri)

1. teapot

Descendants

• → Gulf Arabic: غوري (ǧūri)
• → Malay: guri / ݢوري (“small waterpot with a spout”)
  • Indonesian: guri