قره بوغا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Compound of قره (kara, “black”) +‎ بوغا (boğa, “bull”).

Noun

قره بوغا • (kara boğa)

1. bull-buffalo, the adult male of a buffalo

Coordinate terms

• بوفالو (bufalo, “buffalo”)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره بوغا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 288
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره بوغا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 402