سقا قوشی

Ottoman Turkish

سقا قوشی

Etymology

From سقا (saka, “water carrier”) + قوش (kuş, “bird”).

Noun

سقا قوشى • (saka kuşu)

1. pelican, any of various large seabirds of the family Pelecanidae
2. goldfinch, any small passerine bird of the species Carduelis carduelis

Descendants

• Turkish: saka kuşu, saka
• → Armenian: սախա խուշի (saxa xuši), սախախուշ (saxaxuš), սախա (saxa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “saka kuşu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4025
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سقا قوشی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 271a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سقا قوشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 682
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Carduelis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 153
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سقا قوشی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2631
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سقا قوشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1063