قورومق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kūrï- (“to dry up”).

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani qurumaq, Bashkir ҡороу (qorow), Chuvash хӑрма (hărma), Kazakh қурау (qurau), Kyrgyz куруу (kuruu), Southern Altai курар (kurar), Turkmen guramak, Uyghur قۇرۇماق (qurumaq), Uzbek qurimoq and Yakut куур (kuur).

Verb

قورومق • (kurumak) (third-person singular simple present قورور (kurur))

  1. (intransitive) to dry, dry up, run dry, desiccate, to become dry, to lose all the water
    • 1923, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Nur Baba‎[1], page 19:
      صوفرامز چول كبی قورویوب قالدی، بر قطبره‌سی جانه جان قاته‌جق...
      Soframız çöl gibi kuruyup kaldı, bir katresi cana can katacak...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (intransitive, of plants) to wither, shrivel, dry up, to become parched and sapless
  3. (intransitive, of a person) to slim, to lose weight, to become excessively meager
  4. (intransitive, of a limb) to become paralyzed or palsied, unable to function properly
Derived terms
  • قانی قورومق (kanı kurumak, “to be worried”, literally “for one's blood to dry up”)
  • قوروتمق (kurutmak, “to make or let dry up”)
  • قورودلمق (kurudulmak, “to be dried, dried up”)
  • قورومه (kuruma, “the act of drying up”)
  • قورونمق (kurunmak, “to dry one's self”)
Descendants
  • Turkish: kurumak

Further reading

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  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “اكشیمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 94
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kurumak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2856
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “قورومق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 374b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قورومق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 981b
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Siccari”, 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 1551
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قورومق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[5], Vienna, column 3793
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kuru-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قورومق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

قورومق • (korumak) (third-person singular simple present قورور (korur))

  1. alternative spelling of قوریمق (korumak, “to protect, shield”)

Further reading

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