kurşun
Turkish edit
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Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish قورشون (kurşun, “lead”), from Common Turkic *qorɣušïn (“lead”), from Proto-Turkic *korguĺčïn (“lead”).[1][2]
Cognates with Karakhanid قُرُغْژٖينْ (qoruγžï̄n, “lead”), Kyrgyz коргошун (korgoşun), Kazakh қорғасын (qorğasyn), Turkmen gurşun, Azerbaijani qurğuşun, Bashkir ҡурғаш (qurğaş), Tatar кургаш (qurgaş), Uyghur قوغۇشۇن (qoghushun), Uzbek qoʻrgʻoshin and Mongolian хорголжин (xorgolžin), the latter being a Turkic borrowing.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
kurşun
Noun edit
kurşun (definite accusative kurşunu, plural kurşunlar)
- lead (chemical element)
- (firearms) musket ball
- (firearms, by extension from the former) bullet
- Synonym: mermi
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kurşun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “koruğjı:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 656
Further reading edit
- “kurşun”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurşun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2849