kır

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. uncultivated area, wilderness
2. countryside

Adj

gray

Verb

second-person singular imperative of kırmak

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kɯɾ/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Ottoman Turkish قیر (kır), from Proto-Turkic *kïr (“mountain”). The color-sense developed from the nominal sense ("the color of the mountains") and is attested already in Karakhanid قِرْ (qïr).

Sents

Yalnız kır saçlı bir mahpus bana hapishaneye ilk geldiği senelere ait bir vaka anlattı.

A gray-haired prisoner told me about a case from his first years in prison.