Chagatai edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

The ending can be identified with the Mongolic plant name suffix ᠭᠠᠨᠠ (-ɣana) / -гана (-gana), however the rest is unexplained. Also frequent in Kipchak طوطرغان (tuturğan, tutarğan) and found in Old Turkic [script needed] (tuturkan) and Khorezmian Turkic تتورغان (tuturğan), تاتورغان (taturğan) (in نهج الفراديس). Now Mongolian тутарга (tutarga).

Noun edit

توتورغان (tuturğan)

  1. rice

Descendants edit

  • Old Anatolian Turkish: توترغن (tuturğan)

References edit

  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “توتورغان”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 223
  • Stachowski, Kamil (2008) Names of Cereals in the Turkic Languages (Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia; 11)‎[2], Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 67