چوروك

See also: چوروک

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

چورك (çürük)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čirik (“rotten”), a development of *čẹr (“rot; disease”), whence چورومك (çürümek, “to rot, to decay”). Cognate with Azerbaijani çürük, Bashkir серек (serek), Kazakh шірік (şırık), Kyrgyz чирик (cirik), Southern Altai чирик (čirik), Tatar черек (çerek), Uyghur چىرىك (chirik) and Uzbek chirik.

Adjective

چوروك • (çürük)

rotten, spoilt, sare, frush, decayed, no longer usable or edible
Synonym: بوزوق (bozuk)
unsound, defective, faulty, presenting one or more defects or faults
bruised, discoloured, ecchymosed, covered with bruises or ecchymosis
(of a soldier) invalided and discharged for being unfit for active duty
(of money) irrecoverable, sunk, incapable of being recovered

Derived terms

ایپ چوروك (ip çürük, “one who cannot be depended on”)
چوروك سوز (çürük söz, “worthless word”)
چوروك چیقمق (çürük çıkmak, “to turn out rotten”)
چوروكلك (çürüklük, “rottenness”)
چوروكه چیقارمق (çürüğe çıkarmak, “to discharge an invalid soldier”)
چوروكه چیقمق (çürüğe çıkmak, “to be discharged as invalided”)

Descendants

Turkish: çürük
→ Arabic:
Egypt: شُرُك (šuruk, “phony; unfit”)

Iraq: شُرُك (šuruk, “rotten, bad”)

Syria: شُرُك (šuruk, “damaged”)
→ Armenian: չիւրիւկ (čʻiwriwk), չուռուկ (čʻuṙuk), չուրուկ (čʻuruk)
→ Bulgarian: чуру́к (čurúk)
→ Georgian: ჩურუქი (čuruki), ჩურუქა (čuruka)
→ Laz: ჩურუღი (çuruği), ჭურუღი (ç̌uruği)
→ Pontic Greek: τσουρούκης (tsouroúkis)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: чу̀рук

Latin script: čùruk

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çürük2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1063
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 190b
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوروك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 478
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Putridus”, 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, Vienna, column 1413
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 1675-1676
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çürük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوروك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 735

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