kurşun
Turkish
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Etymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish قورشون (kurşun, “lead”), from Common Turkic *qorɣušïn (“lead”), from Proto-Turkic *korguĺčïn (“lead”).[1][2]
Cognates with Karakhanid قُرُغْژٖينْ (qoruγžï̄n, “lead”), Kyrgyz коргошун (korgoşun), Kazakh қорғасын (qorğasyn), Turkmen gurşun, Azerbaijani qurğuşun, Bashkir ҡурғаш (qurğaş), Tatar кургаш (qurgaş), Uyghur قوغۇشۇن (qoghushun), Uzbek qoʻrgʻoshin and Mongolian хорголжин (xorgolžin), the latter being a Turkic borrowing.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editkurşun
Noun
editkurşun (definite accusative kurşunu, plural kurşunlar)
- lead (chemical element)
- (firearms) musket ball
- (firearms, by extension from the former) bullet
- Synonym: mermi
Declension
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kurşun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “koruğjı:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 656
Further reading
edit- “kurşun”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurşun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2849
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