صو آیغری

Ottoman Turkish

صو آیغری

Etymology

From صو (su, “water”) + آیغر (ayğır, “stallion”).

Noun

صو آیغری • (su ayğırı)

1. hippopotamus, any large, semi-aquatic mammal of the species Hippopotamus amphibius

   Synonyms: آت بالغی (at balığı), هیپوپوتام (hipopotam)

Descendants

• Turkish: su aygırı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “su aygırı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4337
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صو آیغری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 43
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “hippopotamus”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 243a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صو آیغری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 299