یورك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yürek (“heart”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yüräk), Azerbaijani ürək, Bashkir йөрәк (yörək), Kazakh жүрек (jürek), Kyrgyz жүрөк (jürök), Turkmen ýürek, Uyghur يۈرەك (yürek), Uzbek yurak and Yakut сүрэх (süreq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jyˈɾɛc/

Noun

یورك • (yürek)

1. heart, a muscular organ that pumps blood through the body

   Synonyms: قلب (kalb), گوڭل (göñül)

2. (fuguratively) spirit, courage, determination, fearlessness
3. (by extension) stomach or bowels

Derived terms

• یوركسز (yüreksiz, “timid, coward”)
• یوركلندرمك (yüreklendirmek, “to embolden”)
• یوركلنمك (yüreklenmek, “to become bold”)
• یوركلی (yürekli, “bold, courageous”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: ürek
• Turkish: yürek
• → Ladino: yurek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yürek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5404
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 512b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1362
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cor”, 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 285
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5617
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yürek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2213