انجیر قوشی

Ottoman Turkish

انجیر قوشی

Etymology

Compound of انجیر (incir, “fig”) +‎ قوش (kuş, “bird”).

Noun

انجیر قوشى • (incir kuşu)

1. figpecker (Sylvia hortensis)

   Synonym: انجیردلن (incir delen)

Descendants

• Turkish: incir kuşu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “incir kuşu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2173
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انجیر قوشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 154
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ficedula”, 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 570
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انجیر قوشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 214