اوردك

Ottoman Turkish

اوردك

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ȫrdek (“duck”); cognate with Azerbaijani ördək, Bashkir үрҙәк (ürźək), Kazakh үйрек (üirek), Kyrgyz өрдөк (ördök), Tatar үрдәк (ürdäk), Turkmen ördek, Uyghur ئۆردەك (ördek) and Uzbek oʻrdak.

Noun

اوردك • (ördek)

1. duck, a freshwater bird in the family Anatidae

Derived terms

• اوردك باشی (ördek başı, “duck-head green”)
• تكیر اوردكی (tekir ördeği, “scoter”)
• یابان اوردكی (yaban ördeği, “mallard”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ördek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ördek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3707
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوردك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 78a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوردك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 181
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Anas”, 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 60
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوردك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 500
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ördek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوردك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 244