چورك

See also: چورک and چؤرک

Ottoman Turkish

چورك

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *čörek (“a round loaf of bread”); cognate with Azerbaijani çörək, Kumyk чёрек (çörek) and Turkmen çörek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃø.ˈɾɛc/

Noun

چورك • (çörek)

1. çörek, a kind of sweetened bread or loaf, a sort of bun

Derived terms

• چورك اوتی (çörek otu, “black caraway”)
• چوركجی (çörekci, “cörek dealer”)
• چوركخانه (çörekhane, “royal bakery”)
• چوركلك (çöreklik, “bakery where buns are made”)
• چوركلنمك (çöreklenmek, “to become cake, bun, etc.”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çörek
• → Armenian: չյորեկ (čʻyorek), չորակ (čʻorak)
• → Greek: τσουρέκι (tsouréki)
• → Romanian: ciurec

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çörek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1048
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 190b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 478
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Simila”, 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 1556
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1675
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çörek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 735