اركك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ēr (“man”). From the same root are ار (er, “man”), اركن (ergen, “unmarried male”) and ارلك (erlik, “manhood, virility”).

Noun

اركك • (erkek)

1. male, of humans and beasts

   Synonyms: ذكر (zeker), نر (ner)

   Antonym: دشی (dişi)

2. the best-growing, best-flowering or best-fruited plant
3. the best kind, of steel, metal etc.

Derived terms

• ارككسی (erkeksi, “masculine”)
• ارككلك (erkeklik, “manhood”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: erkek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “erkek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1470
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اركك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 69
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mas”, 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 1013
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اركك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 147–148
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “erkek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اركك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 71