چوروك

See also: چوروک

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چورك (çürük)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čirik (“rotten”), a development of *čẹr (“rot; disease”), whence چورومك (çürümek, “to rot, to decay”). Cognate with Azerbaijani çürük, Bashkir серек (serek), Kazakh шірік (şırık), Kyrgyz чирик (cirik), Southern Altai чирик (čirik), Tatar черек (çerek), Uyghur چىرىك (chirik) and Uzbek chirik.

Adjective

چوروك • (çürük)

1. rotten, spoilt, sare, frush, decayed, no longer usable or edible

   Synonym: بوزوق (bozuk)

2. unsound, defective, faulty, presenting one or more defects or faults
3. bruised, discoloured, ecchymosed, covered with bruises or ecchymosis
4. (of a soldier) invalided and discharged for being unfit for active duty
5. (of money) irrecoverable, sunk, incapable of being recovered

Derived terms

• ایپ چوروك (ip çürük, “one who cannot be depended on”)
• چوروك سوز (çürük söz, “worthless word”)
• چوروك چیقمق (çürük çıkmak, “to turn out rotten”)
• چوروكلك (çürüklük, “rottenness”)
• چوروكه چیقارمق (çürüğe çıkarmak, “to discharge an invalid soldier”)
• چوروكه چیقمق (çürüğe çıkmak, “to be discharged as invalided”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çürük
• → Arabic:

  Egypt: شُرُك (šuruk, “phony; unfit”)

  Iraq: شُرُك (šuruk, “rotten, bad”)

  Syria: شُرُك (šuruk, “damaged”)

• → Armenian: չիւրիւկ (čʻiwriwk), չուռուկ (čʻuṙuk), չուրուկ (čʻuruk)
• → Bulgarian: чуру́к (čurúk)
• → Georgian: ჩურუქი (čuruki), ჩურუქა (čuruka)
• → Laz: ჩურუღი (çuruği), ჭურუღი (ç̌uruği)
• → Pontic Greek: τσουρούκης (tsouroúkis)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: чу̀рук

  Latin script: čùruk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çürük2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1063
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 190b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوروك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 478
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Putridus”, 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 1413
• 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, columns 1675-1676
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çürük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوروك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 735