یوسفجك
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From یوسف (Yusuf, “Joseph”) + ـجق (-cuk, diminutive suffix).
Noun edit
یوسفجك • (yusufcuk)
- Diminutive of یوسف (Yusuf, “Joseph”):
- dragonfly, any winged, predatory insect of the suborder Epiprocta
- turtle dove, any of several species of birds in the genus Streptopelia
Descendants edit
- Turkish: yusufçuk
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yusufçuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5389
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوسفجك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1364
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوسفجك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2215