Talk:orkut

RFV discussion: July–December 2022
This is about the Turkish entry. Not found as a common noun in dictionaries or elsewhere. It is hard to search, because Orkut is a common Turkish masculine given name, as well as the name of a once popular. --Lambiam 17:46, 2 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia's article "" gives "holy city" as the literal meaning of the name. I can't vouch for that, but for all I know it could be true. Anyway, it's possible that someone saw this and decided to create the entry with the literal etymological meaning, even if it's not  used other than as a name. 98.170.164.88 04:19, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The etymology “From + ” was replaced a few months ago by an rfv. Wikipedia has: “composed of or ('create') and kut ('holy')”. Earlier, the text on Wikipedia read, ‘"Or" means "Greate", "togetherness", "association", and/or "cooccurrence".’ This does not inspire confidence in the editor’s competence. There is no Turkish noun or and no verb with the stem or-, but  may have meant something like “place”. The combined term or kut would not have meant “holy place”, but “the place is holy”. Old Turkic, long extinct, belonged to the  branch of Turkic, while Turkish belongs to another branch, the .  --Lambiam 08:31, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed. 70.172.194.25 06:51, 28 December 2022 (UTC)