تورغای

Chagatai

تورغای

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *torgay (“lark”), see Bashkir турғай (turğay) for cognates.

Noun

تورغای (torğay)

1. lark (any bird within the Alaudidae family)

Descendants

• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic script: тўрғай (toʻrgʻay)

  Latin script: toʻrgʻay

• Uyghur:

  Arabic script: تورغاي (torghay)

  Cyrillic script: торғай (torghay)

  Latin script: torghay

• → Persian: ترغای (torğây), ترغی (torğay), تورغای (turğây)

References

• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “تورغای”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 226

Persian

Noun

تورغای • (turğây)

1. Alternative form of ترغای (torğây)