بورك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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Noun

بورك • (börek)

a name of various kinds of pastry; or a cake of flaky piecrust, burek

Descendants

Turkish: börek
→ Albanian: byrek
→ Armenian: բյորեկ (byorek), պէօրէկ (pēōrēk)
→ English: burek, börek, borek
→ German: Börek
→ Greek: μπουρέκι n (bouréki, “pie, pastie”)
→ Hijazi Arabic: بريك‎
→ Macedonian: бурек (burek)
→ Serbo-Croatian: бу̀рек / bùrek

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) , “بورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 283
Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “بورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395

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