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Etymology

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Borrowed from Turkic, likely from Ottoman Turkish بلدرجین (bıldırcın) or Azerbaijani bildirçin, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bïldur-, *buldïr- (quail).[1]

Pronunciation

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Readings
Iranian reading? belderčin

Noun

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Dari بودنه
Iranian Persian بلدرچین
Tajik бедона

بلدرچین (belderčin) (plural بلدرچین‌ها (belderčin-hâ)) (Iran)

  1. quail
    تخم بلدرچینtoxm-e belderčinquail eggs

References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bɨldur- (*buldɨr-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill