terek
See also: Terek and térek
Crimean Tatar
Noun
terek
- tree
Hungarian
Etymology
tér + -ek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɛrɛk]
- Hyphenation: te‧rek
Noun
terek
- nominative plural of tér
Anagrams
- keret, retek, retke, teker
Tatar
Adjective
terek
- alive
Turkish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Turkic *dẹrek (“poplar, tree”). Iranian origin is quite improbable.[1]
Noun
terek
- (dialectal) tree
- Synonym: ağaç
References
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*dẹrek”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Etymology 2
The origin is uncertain.[1] Related to Armenian դարակ (darak), թարեք (tʿarekʿ), and possibly borrowed from it.[2] Alternatively, from termek, dermek (“to collect; to arrange”).[3][4]
Alternative forms
- derek, telek
Noun
terek
- (dialectal) shelf
- Synonyms: raf, sergen
- (dialectal) cupboard
- Synonym: dolap
References
- Eren, Hasan (1999), “terek”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 404b
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913), “դարակ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 268b
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “derek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume II, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1170b
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “terek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume V, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4750b