گوك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• կէօք (gök) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish كوك (gök, “blue, green”), from Proto-Turkic *kȫk (“blue, green”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰚𐰇𐰚 (kök, “blue”).

Noun

گوك • (gök)

1. sky

Adjective

گوك • (gök)

1. light blue, azure
2. (archaic) green

Descendants

• Gagauz: gök (göy-)
• Turkish: gök (göğ-)
• → Albanian: gjok, gjog
• → Aromanian: ghioc

See also

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویا بویلر (boyalar) (layout · text)

آق (ak)	بوز (boz)	قره (kara)
قزل (kızıl); آل (al)	ترنجی (türünci); قوڭور (koñur)	صاری (sarı)
	یشیل (yeşil)
	گوك (gök)	ماوی (mavi)
مور (mor)	افلاطون (eflatun)	پنبه (pembe)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گوك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1614