بوكار

Ottoman Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

بیكار (bıñar), پیكار (pıñar)

Etymology edit

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (bïŋar, “spring”), from Proto-Turkic *bïŋar.

Noun edit

بوكار • (buñar)

fountain, spring
Synonyms: چشمه (çeşme), قایناق (kaynak)
well
Synonym: قیو (kuyu)

Derived terms edit

بوكار باشی (buñar başı)

Descendants edit

Turkish: pınar
→ Albanian: bunar
→ Aromanian: bunar
→ Bulgarian: буна́р (bunár)
→ Greek: μπουνάρι (bounári) — Cretan
→ Macedonian: бунар (bunar)
→ Romani:
Balkan Romani: bunari

Vlax Romani: bunari
→ Romanian: bunar
→ Serbo-Croatian: bùnār／бу̀на̄р

References edit

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوكار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 406a
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوكار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 290b

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