sirke

Meaning

vinegar (condiment)

Concepts

vinegar

nit

piccalilli

salmagundi

eisel

Synonyms

bit yumurtası

katgı

Translations

vinaigre

Essig

vinagre

azijn

aceto

vinagre

vinagre

ξίδι

vinagre

acetum

خل

ξυνό

ξύδι

acētum

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: سركه

Cognate with Azerbaijani: sirkə

Cognate with Bashkir: һеркә

Cognate with Uzbek: sirka

Cognate with Kazakh: сірке

Cognate with Turkmen: sirke

Cognate with Chuvash: шарак

Cognate with Persian: سرکه

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish سركه (sirke, “vinegar”), from Proto-Turkic *sirke (“vinegar, acid”).
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (sirke), Azerbaijani sirkə (“vinegar”), Bashkir һеркә (herkə, “vinegar”), Uzbek sirka (“vinegar”), Kazakh сірке (sırke, “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.