erkək

See also: erkak and erkek

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic еркәк
Arabic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ẹrkek ~ *hẹrkek (“male”).[1] Cognate with Turkish erkek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [eɾˈcæc]
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

erkək (comparative daha erkək, superlative ən erkək)

  1. male (animal of masculine sex)
    Antonym: dişi

Descendants

  • → Lezgi: эркек (èrkek)

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ẹr-kek”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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