Where does “kırk” come from?

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

kırk (Turkish): forty

Definitions

  1. forty

Ancestry of “kırk”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishقرقforty, the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one
2Old Anatolian Turkishقرقforty
3Proto-Turkickïrkforty

Words derived from “kırk”

Every word from Proto-Turkic kïrk →Every word from Old Anatolian Turkish قرق →Every word from Ottoman Turkish قرق →