Source — Wiktionary, "μεράκι" (Greek)
- Title: μεράκι
- Author: Wiktionary contributors (unauthored, collectively edited)
- Publication: en.wiktionary.org
- URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/μεράκι
- Date: undated (live entry; last edited 9 January 2025 per the page's own footer at access time)
- Accessed: 2026-09-02
- Type: tertiary — neutral/lexicographic
- Access method note: fetched and read directly from raw HTML (
curlwith a browser User-Agent, then a tag-strip), per this project's standing fence on WebFetch/WebSearch synthesis unreliability.
Extract
- The entry is Greek-only — there is no English-language section on this page at all (contrast the separate, English-only
merakiWiktionary page, which does not exist — seewikipedia-meraki-disambiguation.md's companion finding below). This is a different, more extreme shape of "no dictionary adoption" than any word previously on this project's file: not merely no English sense (komorebi) or no noun-form entry (gezellig's missing gezelligheid), but literally zero page at the English title. - Etymology: "From Ottoman Turkish مراق (merak, 'desire, enthusiasm')."
- Pronunciation: /meˈɾa.ci/.
- Noun: μεράκι (meráki), neuter, plural μεράκια. Three senses given: (1) "Passion: intense desire or sorrow" (synonyms: πόθος/póthos; in the negative sense, ντέρτι/ntérti); (2) "Zeal for the actualization of a desire, or the emotion associated with such a zeal" (synonym: κέφι/kéfi); (3, usually plural) "Joy, good mood."
- Related terms: μερακλής/μερακλού (meraklís/meraklloú, "a person characterized by meraki"), μερακλίδικα/μερακλήδικα, μερακλίδικος/μερακλήδικος, μερακλίκι, μεράκλωμα, μερακλώνω.
- Further reading names, and directly links, the primary Greek-language dictionary entry: μεράκι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998, at the Centre for the Greek Language — this project followed that link and directly read the primary entry itself (see
greek-language-gr-triantafyllidis-meraki.md).
Gaps
- This entry does not itself trace the etymology past Ottoman Turkish to Arabic (contrast the Triantafyllidis dictionary's own etymology line and the OddFeed source's more detailed Nişanyan-sourced account, both filed separately).