sarkık

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صارقق‎ (ṣarḳıḳ, “pendulous, hanging loosely”)[1], from Ottoman Turkish صارقمق‎ (ṣarḳmaḳ, “to hang loosely, to drop or lag astern”), from Proto-Turkic *sark- (“to hang loosely, to swing, to drip”).[2][3], morphologically sark- +‎ -ık.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saɾˈkɯk/
  • Hyphenation: sar‧kık

Adjective

sarkık

  1. Hanging loosely, sagging or drooping.

Declension

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صارقق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1154
  2. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*sark-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sark-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • sarkık in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
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