اركك

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ēr (“man”). From the same root is ار‎ (er, “man”), ارلك‎ (erlik, “manhood, virility”).

اركك • (erkek)

1. male, of humans and beasts

   Synonyms: ذكر‎ (zeker), نر‎ (ner)

   Antonym: دشی‎ (dişi)

2. the best-growing, best-flowering or best-fruited plant
3. the best kind, of steel, metal etc.

• Turkish: erkek

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اركك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 69
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Mas”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1013
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اركك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 147–148
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “erkek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اركك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 148