Where does “قرق” come from?

قرق (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Old Anatolian Turkish قرق, from Proto-Turkic kïrk — forty.

قرق (Ottoman Turkish): forty, the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one

Definitions

  1. forty, the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one

Ancestry of “قرق”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Anatolian Turkishقرقforty
2Proto-Turkickïrkforty

Words derived from “قرق

Every word from Proto-Turkic kïrkEvery word from Old Anatolian Turkish قرق