قوقوماو
Ottoman Turkish edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Greek κουκουβάγια (koukouvágia, “owl”), a word of onomatopoeic origin; compare Albanian kukuvajkë, Bulgarian кукумявка (kukumjavka), Italian coccoveggia and Romanian cucuvea.
Noun edit
قوقوماو • (kukumav)
- little owl, a species of small owl (Athene noctua)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: kukumav
- → Ubykh: кәыкәм'ав' (kʷʼəkʷʼṃaṿ)
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kukumav”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2824
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوقوماو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 986
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kukumav”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوقوماو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1491
- Tietze, Andreas (1955) “Griechische Lehnwörter im anatolischen Türkisch”, in Oriens (in German), volume 8, number 2, , § 147, page 227