قورساقسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قورساق (kursak, “crop of birds”) +‎ ـسز (-siz, “-less”)

Adjective

قورساقسز • (kursaksız)

1. voracious, gluttonous, ravenous

   Synonym: اوبور (obur)

Descendants

• Turkish: kursaksız

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kursaksız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2849
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vorax”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1790
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قورساقسز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3788