قورساقسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قورساق (kursak, “crop of birds”) +‎ ـسز (-siz, “-less”)

Adjective

قورساقسز • (kursaksız)

  1. voracious, gluttonous, ravenous
    Synonym: اوبور (obur)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kursaksız

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kursaksız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2849
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Vorax”, 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[1], Vienna, column 1790
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قورساقسز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[2], Vienna, column 3788
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