بورك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
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Noun
بورك • (börek)
- a name of various kinds of pastry; or a cake of flaky piecrust, burek
Descendants
- Turkish: börek
- → Albanian: byrek
- → Armenian: բյորեկ (byorek), պէօրէկ (pēōrēk)
- → English: burek, börek, borek
- → German: Börek
- → Greek: μπουρέκι n (bouréki, “pie, pastie”)
- → Hijazi Arabic: بريك
- → Macedonian: бурек (burek)
- → Serbo-Croatian: бу̀рек / bùrek
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) , “بورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 283
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “بورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395