چوروك

See also: چوروک‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čüri- (“to sour, to spoil”)

Adjective

چوروك • (çürük)

rotten, sare, frush
(figurative) non-performing, on which hope is prospectively vain

Related terms

چوروكلك‎ (çürüklük, “rottenness”)
چورومك‎ (çürümek, “to rot, to decay”)
چوروتمك‎ (çürütmek, “to let rot, to put to decay; to present under bad light, to make invalided or discharged; to refute, to confute, to disproof”)

Descendants

Turkish: çürük
→ Arabic:
Egypt: شُرُك‎ (šuruk, “phony; unfit”)

Iraq: شُرُك‎ (šuruk, “rotten, bad”)

Syria: شُرُك‎ (šuruk, “damaged”)
→ Armenian: չիւրիւկ (čʿiwriwk), չուռուկ (čʿuṙuk), չուրուկ (čʿuruk)
→ Bulgarian: чуру́к (čurúk)
→ Georgian: ჩურუქი (čuruki), ჩურუქა (čuruka)
→ Laz: ჩურუღი (çuruği), ჭურუღი (ç̌uruği)
→ Pontic Greek: τσουρούκης (tsouroúkis)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: чу̀рук

Latin script: čùruk

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چوروك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 478
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چوروك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 735

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