yürek
See also: Yurek and ýürek
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یورك (yürek), from Proto-Turkic *yürek, *yür- (“heart; courage”).
Maybe related to Proto-Mongolic *jirüken (“heart”), whence Mongolian зүрх (zürx) and Daur jurgw. Cognate with Azerbaijani ürək, Turkmen ýürek, Old Turkic [script needed] (yürek), Ladino yurek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [jyˈɾɛc]
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Noun
yürek (definite accusative yüreği, plural yürekler)
- heart
- (idiomatic) courage
Declension
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | yürek | |
| Definite accusative | yüreği | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | yürek | yürekler |
| Definite accusative | yüreği | yürekleri |
| Dative | yüreğe | yüreklere |
| Locative | yürekte | yüreklerde |
| Ablative | yürekten | yüreklerden |
| Genitive | yüreğin | yüreklerin |
References
- Tokat, Feyza (2014), “On the Common Words in Mongolian and the Turkish Dialects in Turkey”, in The Journal of International Social Research (Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi), volume 7, issue 32, ISSN 1307-9581, pages 185-198.
- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation), Utrecht: LOT