قره آغاج

Ottoman Turkish

قره آغاج

Etymology

From قره (kara, “black”) + آغاج (ağac, “tree”).

Noun

قره آغاج • (kara ağac)

1. elm, any of several trees in the genus Ulmus

Descendants

• Turkish: karaağaç, gağaç, garageç, karâç, karageç (dialectal); kara ağaç
  • → Greek: καραγάτσι (karagátsi)
  • → Pontic Greek: καραγάτσ̌' (karagátš')
  • → Laz: კარღაჭი (ǩarğaç̌i), კარაღაჯი (ǩarağaci), კააღაჯი (ǩaağaci)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karaağaç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2413
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قره آغاج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 362b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره آغاج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 957
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ulmus”, 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 1778
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره آغاج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1451