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

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, 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, 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
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