seyrek

Meaning

Opposite of
sık
Synonyms

Frequency

36k
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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