çukur

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چوقور‎ (çukur)[1], from Proto-Turkic *čok- (“to dig, delve”).[2]

Noun

çukur (definite accusative çukuru, plural çukurlar)

  1. hole
  2. ravine, glen

Declension
Inflection
Nominative çukur
Definite accusative çukuru
Singular Plural
Nominative çukur çukurlar
Definite accusative çukuru çukurları
Dative çukura çukurlara
Locative çukurda çukurlarda
Ablative çukurdan çukurlardan
Genitive çukurun çukurların

See also

References
  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چوقور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 737
  2. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*čok-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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