بوغا

Ottoman Turkish

بوغا

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *buka (“bull”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀 (b¹uq̊¹a /⁠buqa⁠/), Azerbaijani buğa, Bashkir Буға (Buğa), Kazakh бұқа (būqa), Kyrgyz бука (buka), Tatar бога (boğa), Turkmen buga, Uyghur بۇقا (buqa) and Uzbek buga.

Noun

بوغا • (boğa)

1. bull, an adult male of the species Bos taurus

   Synonym: ثور (sevr)

2. (astronomy) Taurus, a constellation of the zodiac
3. (astrology) Taurus, a zodiac sign for the bull

Derived terms

• بوغا دیكنی (boğa dikeni, “milk thistle”)
• بوغا یپراغی (boğa yaprağı, “fleabane”)
• قره بوغا (kara boğa, “bull buffalo”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: boğa
• → Bulgarian: буга́ (bugá), буа́ (buá)
• → Greek: μπουγάς (bougás)
• → Romanian: bugă

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boğa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 641
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 288
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Taurus”, 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 1651
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوغا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 929–930
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boğa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 402