# بورك
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bögürek, a diminutive of *bögür (“kidney”), whence بوگور (böğür, “side, flank”), based on the similar shape of the pastry to the organs. Probably unrelated to Slavic pierogi.

#### Noun

بورك • (börek)
* burek, a type of baked or fried filled pastry typical of the former Ottoman Empire
* (in general) pastry, a baked food item made from flour and fat pastes, such as a pie crust

##### Derived terms

* اتلو بورك (etli börek, “patty stuffed with mince-meat”)
* بوركجی (börekci, “maker or seller of pastries”)
* تاتار بوركی (tatar böreği, “Tatar pie”)
* تنجره بوركی (tencere böreği, “vol-au-vent”)
* تپسی بوركی (tepsi böreği, “large kind of pie”)
* ساده بورك (sade börek, “kind of plain pastry”)
* ساقز بوركی (sakız böreği, “kind of cake of pastry”)
* پنیرلو بورك (penirli börek, “patty stuffed with cheese”)
* پوف بوركی (puf böreği, “pastry, cream puff”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: börek
* → Albanian: byrek
* → Armenian: բյորեկ (byorek)
* → Aromanian: burecã
* → Bulgarian: бюре́к (bjurék)
* → English: burek, börek, borek, brik
* → German: Börek
* → Greek: μπουρέκι n (bouréki, “pie, pastie”)
* → Hijazi Arabic: بريك
* → Laz: ბურეღი (bureği)
* → Ladino: boreka
* → Macedonian: бурек (burek)
* → Persian: بورک (burâk)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бу̀рек
    Latin script: bùrek

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “börek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 676
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 130a
* Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎ (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 331 Nr. 781
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 283
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Artocrea”, 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 88
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 915
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “börek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *börük (“hat, cap”); cognate with Azerbaijani börk, Bashkir бүрек (bürek), Kazakh бөрік (börık), Kyrgyz бөрүк (börük), Turkmen bȫrik, Uyghur بۆك (bök), Uzbek burk and Yakut бэргэһэ (bergehe).

#### Noun

بورك • (börk)
* kind of tall, conical cap made of fur or felt and typically worn by janissaries
    Synonym: كلاه (külah)

##### Derived terms

* بوركجی (börkcü, “maker or seller of conical hats”)
* سلطان بوركی (sultan börkü, “cock's comb”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: börk

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “börk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 677
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بورك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 130a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 283
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pileus”, 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 1300
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بورك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 915
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “börk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395