güreş
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *kerüĺ- (“to fight, to struggle”). Cognate with Kypchak küreş . Further cognates include Tatar көрәш (köräş), Uighur küräš, Azerbaijani güləş, Chuvash kǝreš/кӗреш(ӳ), Tuvan хүреш (xüreş), Kyrgyz күрөш (küröş), Kazakh күрес (küres), Bashkir көрәш (körəş) (etc.).
Equivalent to gür (“strong”) + -eş.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
güreş
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
References edit
- Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth Century Turkish, Oxford, 1972, pp. 747-748.
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güreş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük