صیغیرجق

Ottoman Turkish

صیغیرجق

Alternative forms

• صغرجق (sığırcık)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïgïrčïk (“starling”); cognate with Azerbaijani sığırçın, Bashkir сыйырсыҡ (sıyırsıq), Chuvash шӑнкӑрч (šănk̬ărč), Kyrgyz чыйырчык (cıyırcık) and Tatar сыерчык (sıyerçıq).

Noun

صیغیرجق • (sığırcık)

1. starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

   Synonyms: چكركه قوشی (çekirge kuşu), زرزور (zurzur), سار (sar)

Descendants

• Turkish: sığırcık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sığırcık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4193
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیغیرجق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 779
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sturnus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1608
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صغرجق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2959
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sığırcık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیغیرجق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1200