توتورغان

Chagatai

Alternative forms

• توتورغو (tuturğu)

Etymology

The ending can be identified with the Mongolic plant name suffix ᠭᠠᠨᠠ (-ɣana) / -гана (-gana), however the rest is unexplained. Also frequent in Kipchak طوطرغان (tuturğan, tutarğan) and found in Old Turkic [script needed] (tuturkan) and Khorezmian Turkic تتورغان (tuturğan), تاتورغان (taturğan) (in نهج الفراديس). Now Mongolian тутарга (tutarga).

Noun

توتورغان (tuturğan)

1. rice

Descendants

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: توترغن (tuturğan)

References

• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “توتورغان”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental‎^[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 223
• Stachowski, Kamil (2008) Names of Cereals in the Turkic Languages (Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia; 11)‎^[2], Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 67