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sirke.

vinegar (condiment)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. vinegar (condiment)

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish سركه (sirke, “vinegar”), from Proto-Turkic *sirke (“vinegar, acid”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (sirke), Azerbaijani sirkə (“vinegar”), Bashkir һеркә (herkä, “vinegar”), Uzbek sirka (“vinegar”), Kazakh сірке (sirke, “vinegar”), Turkmen sirke (“vinegar”), etc. Compare Chuvash шарак (šarak, “bitter; salt”). Akin to Persian سرکه (serke); according to Doerfer the direction of a possible borrowing is not clear.

noun
  1. nit (egg of a louse)

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish سركه (sirke, “nit”), from Proto-Turkic *sirke (“nit”).

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