Where does “ay çöreği” come from?

ay çöreği (Turkish) comes from Turkish çörek, from Ottoman Turkish چورك, from Common Turkic čörek — a round loaf of bread.

ay çöreği (Turkish): a type of sweet pastry shaped like a crescent and filled with a chocolaty interior, also containing raisins and walnuts, and pieces of hazelnuts on the outside

Definitions

  1. a type of sweet pastry shaped like a crescent and filled with a chocolaty interior, also containing raisins and walnuts, and pieces of hazelnuts on the outside

Ancestry of “ay çöreği”, step by step

ay çöreği traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish çörek

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishçöreksweet pastry
2Ottoman Turkishچوركsweet bread, brioche
3Common Turkicčöreka round loaf of bread

via Turkish Ay

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TurkishAymoon; Moon
2Ottoman Turkishآیmoon; month
3Old Anatolian Turkishآیْ—
Every word from Common Turkic čörek →Every word from Ottoman Turkish چورك →Every word from Turkish çörek →