buyruk

buyruk

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بیورق‎ (buyuruḳ, “a command, decree”)[1] (alternatively بویرق‎), from Ottoman Turkish بیورق‎ (buyurmaḳ, “to order to be done, to decree, to deign or to condescend to say”), from Proto-Turkic *buyur- (“to order”)[2][3], morphologically buyur- +‎ -uk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bujˈɾuk/
• Hyphenation: buy‧ruk

Noun

buyruk (definite accusative buyruğu, plural buyruklar)

1. A command, order, decree.

   Synonyms: emir, komut, (archaic) ferman

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	buyruk
Definite accusative	buyruğu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	buyruk	buyruklar
Definite accusative	buyruğu	buyrukları
Dative	buyruğa	buyruklara
Locative	buyrukta	buyruklarda
Ablative	buyruktan	buyruklardan
Genitive	buyruğun	buyrukların

Derived terms

• başına buyruk
• buyruğu altına girmek
• buyrukçu
• buyruk kulu

 

References

1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بیورق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 427
2. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bujur-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
3. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “buyruk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

• buyruk in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN