گرك
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Turkic *gẹrgek (“needed, necessary”), from *gẹrge- (“to need”).
Noun
editگرك • (gerek)
Adjective
editگرك • (gerek)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: gerek
Etymology 2
editNoun
editگرك • (gürk, gürük)
- alternative spelling of گورك (gürk, gürük, “pulchritude”)
Derived terms
edit- گركلو (gürklü, “beautiful, fair”)
References
edit- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, columns 3922–3923
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “كرك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 745