Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Armenian բուղայ (buġay), from Ottoman Turkish بوغا (buğa), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *buka.

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

բուղա (buġa) (dialectal)

  1. bull
    Synonym: ցուլ (cʻul)

Declension edit

References edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “պուղա”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 297