dərnək

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Likely from Late Ottoman Turkish درنك‎ (dernek), a learned borrowing from a medieval Turkic language, such as Karakhanid تِرْناكْ‎ (tẹrnek, “people's gathering, a public assembly”), from earlier *tẹringek, from *tērin-, a passive/reflexive form of Common Turkic *tēr- (“to gather, collect”).

Noun

dərnək (definite accusative dərnəyi, plural dərnəklər)

  1. circle, study group, interest group

Declension

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