بورچاق

Ottoman Turkish

بورچاق

Alternative forms

• بورجاق (burcak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *burčak (“bean, pea”); cognate with Bashkir борсаҡ (borsaq), Chuvash пăрҫа (părś̬a), Kazakh бұршақ (būrşaq), Kyrgyz буурчак (buurcak), Turkmen burçak, Uyghur پۇرچاق (purchaq) and Uzbek burchoq.

Noun

بورچاق • (burçak)

1. vetch, any of several leguminous plants of the genus Vicia

   Synonym: فیك (fik)

Derived terms

• آق بورچاق (ak burçak, “chickling vetch, Lathyrus sativus”)
• قره بورچاق (kara burçak, “bitter vetch, Vicia ervilia”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: borçaq
• Turkish: burçak
• → Middle Armenian: պուռչախ (puṙčʻax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burçak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 700
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورچاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 283
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vicia”, 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 1754
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بورچاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 913
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “burçak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورچاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 394