بلدرجین

Ottoman Turkish

بلدرجین

Alternative forms

• بیلدرجین (bıldırcın)
• պըլտըրճըն (bıldırcın) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bïldur- (“quail”); cognate with Azerbaijani bildirçin, Chuvash пӑлтӑрчан (pălt̬ărč̬an), Karakhanid بُدُرْسٖينْ (budursı:n), Kazakh бұлдырық (būldyryq) and Kipchak [script needed] (buyurçın).

Noun

بلدرجین • (bıldırcın)

1. quail, any of various small game birds of the genus Coturnix

   Synonyms: سلوی (selva), سمان (seman)

Derived terms

• بلدرجین اوتی (bıldırcın otu, “monkshood”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bıldırcın
• → Armenian: պըլտըրճին (pəltərčin)
• → Laz: ბულდუჯინი (bulducini)
• → Persian: بلدرچین (belderčin)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bıldırcın”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 587
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بلدرجین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 124b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بلدرجین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 275
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Coturnix”, 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 295
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بلدرجین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 874
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bıldırcın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بلدرجین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 381