هرسك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian хѐрцег / hèrceg (“duke”), from Hungarian herceg (“prince, duke”), from Middle High German herzog, herzoge (“duke”), from Old High German herizogo, herizoho (“duke”), from Proto-West Germanic *harjatogō (“army leader”).
Proper noun
هرسك • (hersek)
- (historical) herzog, a German hereditary title held by one who rules a territorial duchy
- Herzegovina (a historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Descendants
- Turkish: Hersek
- → Armenian: Հէրսէք (Hērsēkʻ)
- → Arabic: هرسك (Harsek)
- → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܸܪܣܲܟ݂ (hirsaḵ)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “هرسك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1323
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “هرسك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 5461
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “هرسك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2162
- Sezen, Tahir (2017), “Hersek”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][4], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 346