قارغه

Ottoman Turkish

قارغه

Alternative forms

• قرغه (karga)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karga (“crow”); cognate with Azerbaijani qarğa, Bashkir ҡарға (qarğa), Kazakh қарға (qarğa), Kyrgyz карга (karga), Tatar карга (qarga), Turkmen garga, Uyghur قاغا (qagha) and Uzbek qargʻa.

Noun

قارغه • (karga)

1. crow, any bird in the genus Corvus

   Synonym: غراب (gurab)

Derived terms

• آلا قارغه (ala karga, “hooded crow”)
• قارغه بورون (karga burun, “aquiline nose”)
• قارغه بوكن (karga bukan, “nux vomica”)
• قارغه دملكی (karga düleği, “squirting cucumber”)
• قارغهجق (kargacık, “little crow”)
• قرا قارغه (kara karga, “carrion crow”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: karga
• → Armenian: խառղա (xaṙġa)
• →? Bulgarian: га́рга (gárga)
• → Greek: κάργα (kárga), κάργια (kárgia)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karga1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2430
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 925a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cornix”, 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 289
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قارغه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3580
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارغه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1413