آری قوشی

Ottoman Turkish

آری قوشی

Etymology

Compound of آری (arı, “bee”) +‎ قوش (kuş, “bird”).

Noun

آری قوشى • (arı kuşu)

1. bee-eater (Merops apiaster)

Descendants

• Turkish: arı kuşu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “arı kuşu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 286
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آری قوشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 15
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Merops”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1042
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آری قوشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 75