كورفز
See also: کؤرفز
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Greek κόρφος (kórfos, “chest, breast”), ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “chest, breast; gulf”).
Noun edit
كورفز • (körfez)
- (geography) gulf, bay, inlet, a portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land
- Synonym: قوی (koy)
Derived terms edit
- ازمیر كورفزی (İzmir körfezi, “Gulf of İzmir”)
- وندیك كورفزی (Venedik körfezi, “Adriatic Sea”)
Descendants edit
Proper noun edit
كورفز • (Körfez)
- Körfez (a town and district in Kocaeli province, Turkey)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: Körfez
Further reading edit
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “körfez”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2792
- Eren, Hasan (1999) “körfez”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 259b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كورفز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1049
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sinus”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1562
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كورفوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 4063
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “körfez”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Körfez”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كورفز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1588
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Körfez”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][5], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 488
Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
كورفز • (Körfüz)
- Corfu (an island in the Ionian Islands region, Greece)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: Körfüz
Further reading edit
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- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corcyra”, 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[6], Vienna, column 288
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كورفز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1588