قایغنه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قایغانا, قایغانه

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خایه گینه (xâya gina, “a kind of scrambled egg”).

Noun

قایغنه • (kaygana)

1. omelette
2. scrambled eggs

Descendants

• Turkish: kaygana
• → Bulgarian: кайгана (kajgana)
• → Greek: καγιανάς (kagianás)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̏јгана

  Latin script: kȁjgana

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قایغنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1428
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قایغنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 941