ثغا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ثَغَا (ṯaḡā).

Noun

ثغا • (süğa)

1. bleating of sheep or goats

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ثغا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1524
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ثغا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 625