قورقو
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *korkug (“fear”),[1] a development of *kork- (“to fear”), whence قورقمق (korkmak, “to fear”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qorxu, Southern Altai корку (korku), Turkmen gorky and Uzbek qoʻrquv.
Noun
editقورقو • (korku)
- fear, fright, terror, dread, an unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger
- threat, menace, an indication of potential or imminent danger that can harm a person
- danger, peril, hazard, jeopardy, an impending exposure to likely harm, a lack of safety
- alarm, a sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger
Derived terms
edit- جان قورقوسی (can korkusu, “fear for one's own life”)
- قورقو ویرمك (korku virmek, “to frighten”)
- قورقو چیقارمق (korku çıkarmak, “to raise an alarm”)
- قورقوسز (korkusuz, “fearless, intrepid”)
- قورقولق (korkuluk, “scarecrow”)
- قورقولو (korkulu, “dangerous, perilous”)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: korku
References
edit- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “korkuğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 654
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “korku”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2748
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قورقو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 373b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورقو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 980
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Timor”, 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 1674
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قورقو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3790
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “korku”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورقو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484