قوری

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Cognate to Azerbaijani qoruq (“protected place, reserve”), Uzbek qoʻriq (“protected place, reserve”), Old Turkic [script needed] (korïg, “protected place, reserve”).

Noun edit

قوری • (korı, koru)

grove, enclosed meadow, reserved forest

Descendants edit

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

References edit

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran

Persian edit

Etymology edit

Altered, since this is spoken in Modern Iranian Persian identically, from (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”)”).

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Particularly: “The semantics and phonetics match up. However, what is the transmission route? The Japanese term doesn't seem to be attested in intermediaries like Chinese, which would make the theory less tenable, as Japan traditionally had almost-zero direct contact with countries west of coastal China. That said, there were a few Persian envoys who visited Japan in the Middle Ages, providing a route for transmission.”