buruşuk

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بورشق‎ (buruşuḳ, “puckered, wrinkled, crumpled or a pucker, a wrinkle”)[1] (alternatively بورشوق‎ (buruşuḳ), بورشیق‎ (buruşıḳ), بوروشق‎ (buruşuḳ)), from Ottoman Turkish بورشمق‎ (buruşmaḳ, “to become puckered, wrinkled, crumpled”), from Ottoman Turkish بورمق‎ (burmaḳ, “to twist or screw, to wring”), from Proto-Turkic *bur- (“to twist, to wind round”)[2][3], morphologically bur- +‎ -uş- +‎ -uk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bu.ɾuˈʃuk/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧ru‧şuk

Adjective

buruşuk

  1. Having been wrinkled, crumpled, wrinkly.
    Synonyms: kırışık, büzük, büzüşük

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بورشق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 394
  2. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bur(a)-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “buruş-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • buruşuk in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
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