قوری

قوری

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Cognate to Azerbaijani qoruq (“protected place, reserve”), Uzbek qoʻriq (“protected place, reserve”), Old Turkic [script needed] (korïg, “protected place, reserve”).

Noun

قوری • (korı, koru)

1. grove, enclosed meadow, reserved forest

Descendants

• Turkish: koru
• → Albanian: korié, kori
• → Aromanian: curíe
• → Bulgarian: кори́я (koríja) (regional)
• → Greek: κουρί n (kourí) (Thracia, Macedonia, Epirus)
• → Macedonian: корија (korija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (Southeast Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria)

  Cyrillic: ко́рија

  Latin: kórija

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قوری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran

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Persian

Etymology

Altered, since this is spoken in Modern Iranian Persian identically, from غوری‎ (ğōrī, “a sort of porcelain”), from Japanese 屈輪, 倶利 (guri, “a kind of curved lacquer design used in 堆朱 (tsuishu, “red lacquer carving”) and 堆黒 (tsuikoku, “black lacquer carving”)”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

قوری • (qūrī)

1. teapot

Descendants

• → Gulf Arabic: غوري‎ (ǧūri)
• → Malay: guri / ݢوري‎ (“small waterpot with a spout”)
  • Indonesian: guri