بویون بوران
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From بویون (boyun, “neck”) + بوران (buran, “twisting, wrying”).
Noun edit
- wryneck, any small woodpecker of the genus Jynx capable of turning the head almost 180°
Descendants edit
- Turkish: boyunburan
Further reading edit
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بویون بوران”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 297
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بویون بوران”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 413