گورك

See also: كورك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From گورمك (gevremek, “to become crisp, fragile”).

Adjective

گورك • (gevrek)

1. fragile, frail, brittle, friable

Derived terms

• گوركلك (gevreklik, “friability”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gevrek
• Serbo-Croatian: đevrek
• Macedonian: ѓеврек (ǵevrek)

Etymology 2

Cognate to Uzbek koʻrk (“beauty, pulchritude”).

Alternative forms

• گرك (gürk, gürük), گوروك (gürk, gürük)

Noun

گورك • (gürk, gürük)

1. beauty, pulchritude, pleasing features

Usage notes

Marked already by Meninski 1680 as rarely in use and nearly obsolete.

Derived terms

• گوركلو (gürklü, “beautiful, fair”)

Descendants

• Turkish: körk

Etymology 3

Noun

گورك • (görek)

1. view, how something looks from the outside, appearance

References

• 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
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 4063–4064
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “كرك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 745
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “گورك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 769–770