هرسك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian хѐрцег / hèrceg (“duke”), from Hungarian herceg (“prince, duke”), from Middle High German herzog, herzoge (“duke”), from Old High German herizogo, herizoho (“duke”), from Proto-West Germanic *harjatogō (“army leader”).

Proper noun

هرسك • (hersek)

  1. (historical) herzog, a German hereditary title held by one who rules a territorial duchy
  2. Herzegovina (a historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Descendants

  • Turkish: Hersek
  • → Armenian: Հէրսէք (Hērsēkʻ)
  • → Arabic: هرسك (Harsek)
  • → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܸܪܣܲܟ݂ (hirsaḵ)

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “هرسك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1323
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “هرسك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[2], Vienna, column 5461
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “هرسك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2162
  • Sezen, Tahir (2017), “Hersek”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎[4], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 346
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