сирек

Bashkir

Etymology

From Persian چهاریک (čahâryek), چاریک (čâryek), چارک (čârak, “one fourth”).

Cognate with Kazakh ширек (şirek), Uzbek chorak (“one fourth, quarter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sʲe.ˈɾɪ̞k]
• Hyphenation: си‧рек

Noun

сирек • (sirek)

1. quarter, one fourth
2. (high school) school term (there are four such terms in an academic year)
3. (moon phase) quarter

Declension

Declension of сирек (sirek)

	singular	plural
absolute	сирек (sirek)	сиректәр (sirektər)
definite genitive	сиректең (sirekteñ)	сиректәрҙең (sirektərźeñ)
dative	сиреккә (sirekkə)	сиректәргә (sirektərgə)
definite accusative	сиректе (sirekte)	сиректәрҙе (sirektərźe)
locative	сиректә (sirektə)	сиректәрҙә (sirektərźə)
ablative	сиректән (sirektən)	сиректәрҙән (sirektərźən)

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	سيرەك
Cyrillic	сирек
Latin	sirek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sedrek (“rare”). Cognate with Tatar сирәк (siräk), Bashkir һирәк (hirək), Kyrgyz сейрек (seyrek), Uzbek siyrak, Turkish seyrek, Azerbaijani seyrək, Turkmen seýrek (“rare”), etc.

Adjective

сирек • (sirek)

1. sparse, rare

Derived terms

• сиректеу (sirekteu)
• сиректік (sirektık)