بوقاغیلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بوقاغی (bukağı, “fetter, hobble”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk).

Noun

بوقاغیلق • (bukağılık)

1. pastern, the part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof

   Synonym: بیلكچه (bilekçe)

Descendants

• Turkish: bukağılık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bukağılık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 689
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوقاغیلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 290
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوقاغیلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 405