اردك

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *ȫrdek. Cognate with Turkish ördek.

Noun

اُرْدَكْ (ördek)

1. duck

   قازْ قُبْسا اُرْدَكْ كُولِكْ اِكانُورْ ― Qāz qopsā ördek kȫlig igēnǖr. ― When the goose flies off, the duck takes possession of the lake.

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ördek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 205

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 103-104