قیورجق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قیویرجق (kıvırcık)

Etymology

From قیورمق (kıvırmak, “to curl, coil, twist”).

Noun

قیورجق • (kıvırcık)

1. curly hair
2. a breed of sheep with curly fleece

Related terms

• قیورلق (kıvrak, “curly”)
• قیورقلق (kıvrılık, “curliness”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kıvırcık
• → Armenian: խըվըռճըխ (xəvəṙčəx), կըվըռջըղ (kəvəṙǰəġ)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kòvrča

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیورجق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1511