قراغو

Ottoman Turkish

قراغو

Alternative forms

• قراغی (kırağı)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïragu (“frost, hoarfrost”); cognate with Azerbaijani qırov, Bashkir ҡырау (qıraw), Kazakh қырау (qyrau), Kyrgyz кыроо (kıroo), Tuvan хыраа (xıraa) and Uzbek qirov.

Noun

قراغو • (kırağu, kırağı)

1. hoar frost, frost, rime, frozen dew forming a white deposit on grass and plants

   Synonyms: ژاله (jale), صقیع (sekiʿ)

Descendants

• Turkish: kırağı
• → Armenian: (Nor Nakhichevan) խըռաղի (xəṙaġi), (Van) կռավա (kṙava)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kırağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2615
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قراغی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 359b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قراغو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 951
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pruina”, 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 1395
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قراغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3658
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kırağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قراغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1444