کرک

Cognate Tamil கரை (karai, “shore”), Elamite [script needed] (šarit, “shore”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

کَرَّک (karrak)

1. bank, shore

• Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “1293”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

کرک (kërk)

1. chicken
2. hen

A Turkic borrowing, equivalent to Ottoman Turkish كورك (kürk, “fur”).

• کلک (kolk)

کرک • (kork) (plural کرک‌ها (kork-hâ))

1. fur, down hair

From Middle Persian [Term?]. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

کرک • (karak) (plural کرک‌ها (karak-hâ))

1. quail

   Synonyms: بلدرچین (belderčin), بدبده (badbade)

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠kark⁠/); cognate with Khotanese kṛṅga- (“cock”), Mazanderani کرک (kërk), Gilaki کرک (kark, kərk, “hen”), etc.

کرک • (kark) (plural کرک‌ها (kark-hâ))

1. hen

   Synonym: مرغ (morğ)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “کرک”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “کرک”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 189
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “کرک”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 819

کرک (kark)

1. crowd

   Synonym: اجدھام (ajdhām)