طورنه

Ottoman Turkish

طورنه

Alternative forms

• طورنا (turna)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *turńa (“crane”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰪𐰀 (turńa), Azerbaijani durna, Bashkir торна (torna), Chuvash тӑрна (tărna), Kazakh тырна (tyrna), Tatar торна (torna), Uzbek turna and Yakut туруйа (turuya).

Noun

طورنه • (turna)

1. crane, any of the large freshwater birds in the family Gruidae

   Synonyms: كركی (kürki), كلنگ (küleng)

Derived terms

• تللو طورنه (telli turna, “demoiselle crane”)
• طورنه بالغی (turna balığı, “pike”)
• طورنه غاغاسی (turna gagası, “cranesbill”)
• طورنه قیری (turna kırı, “kind of reddish grey color”)
• طورنه گوزی (turna gözü, “kind of light yellow color”)
• طورنه‌جی (turnacı, “keeper of the cranes”)
• طوغلو طورنه (toğlu turna, “crowned crane”)
• مصر طورنه‌سی (Mısır turnası, “sacred ibis”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: turna
• → Armenian: թուռնա (tʻuṙna)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “turna”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4915
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طورنه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 317a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طورنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 816
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Grus”, 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 675
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طورنه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3144
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “turna”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طورنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1254