قوزغون

Ottoman Turkish

قوزغون

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *kuzgun (“raven”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆𐰣 (quzɣun), Azerbaijani quzğun, Bashkir ҡоҙғон (qoźğon), Kazakh құзғын (qūzğyn), Kyrgyz кузгун (kuzgun), Tatar козгын (qozgın), Uyghur قۇزغۇن (quzghun) and Uzbek kuzgʻun.

Noun

قوزغون • (kuzğun or kuzgun)

1. raven (Corvus corax)

Derived terms

• قوزغون اوتی (kuzgun otu, “brake”)
• قوزغون ایاغی (kuzğun ayağı, “buck's horn plantain”)
• قوزغون دكزی (kuzğun deñizi, “Caspian Sea”)
• قوزغون قلجی (kuzgun kılıcı, “gladiolus”)
• قوزغونجق (kuzguncuk, “small grilled window”)
• قوزغونی (kuzguni, “raven black”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kuzgun
• → Armenian: խուզղուն (xuzġun)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuzgun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2877
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوزغون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 982
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corvus”, 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 294
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوزغون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3793
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kuzgun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوزغون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1488