بورك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

    Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bögürek, a diminutive of *bögür (“kidney”), whence بوگور (böğür, “side, flank”), based on the similar shape of the pastry to the organs. Probably unrelated to Slavic pierogi.

    Noun

    بورك • (börek)

    1. burek, a type of baked or fried filled pastry typical of the former Ottoman Empire
    2. (in general) pastry, a baked food item made from flour and fat pastes, such as a pie crust
    Derived terms
    • اتلو بورك (etli börek, “patty stuffed with mince-meat”)
    • بوركجی (börekci, “maker or seller of pastries”)
    • تاتار بوركی (tatar böreği, “Tatar pie”)
    • تنجره بوركی (tencere böreği, “vol-au-vent”)
    • تپسی بوركی (tepsi böreği, “large kind of pie”)
    • ساده بورك (sade börek, “kind of plain pastry”)
    • ساقز بوركی (sakız böreği, “kind of cake of pastry”)
    • فنجان بوركی (fincan böreği, “a variety of burek”)
    • پنیرلو بورك (penirli börek, “patty stuffed with cheese”)
    • پوف بوركی (puf böreği, “pastry, cream puff”)
    Descendants

    Further reading

    • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “börek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 676
    • Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “بورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 130a
    • Doerfer, Gerhard (1965), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎[2] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 331 Nr. 781
    • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 283
    • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Artocrea”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎[4], Vienna, column 88
    • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[5], Vienna, column 915
    • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “börek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
    • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395

    Etymology 2

      Inherited from Proto-Turkic *börük (“hat, cap”); cognate with Azerbaijani börk, Bashkir бүрек (bürek), Kazakh бөрік (börık), Kyrgyz бөрүк (börük), Turkmen bȫrik, Uyghur بۆك (bök), Uzbek burk and Yakut бэргэһэ (bergehe).

      Noun

      بورك • (börk)

      1. kind of tall, conical cap made of fur or felt and typically worn by janissaries
        Synonym: كلاه (külah)
      Derived terms
      • بوركجی (börkcü, “maker or seller of conical hats”)
      • سلطان بوركی (sultan börkü, “cock's comb”)
      Descendants

      Further reading

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