آق بابا

Ottoman Turkish

آق بابا

Etymology

From آق (white, “spotted, speckled”) + بابا (baba, “father”).

Noun

آق بابا • (ak baba)

1. vulture, any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae

   Synonym: نسر (nesr)

Descendants

• Turkish: akbaba
• → Armenian: ախպապա (axpapa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “akbaba”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 166
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آق بابا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 53a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آق بابا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 27
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vultur”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1801
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آق بابا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 326
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “akbaba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آق بابا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 161