seyrek
Meaning
Concepts
Opposite of
sık
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sejˈɾec/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سیرك (seyrek, “open, wide apart, loosely woven, rare”), from Proto-Turkic *sedrek (“gappy, rare, perforated”), from *sedre- (“to be rare, to have wide intervals”). By surface analysis, seyre- + -k. Cognates with Azerbaijani seyrək, Bashkir һирәк (hirək), Kazakh сирек (sirek), Kyrgyz сейрек (seyrek), Tatar сирәк (siräk), Turkmen seýrek, Uzbek siyrak.
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