قوغو

Ottoman Turkish

قوغو

Alternative forms

• قوغی (kuğu)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kugu (“swan”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰍𐰆 (quǧu /⁠quɣu⁠/), Azerbaijani qu, Karakhanid قُغُو (quɣū), Uyghur قۇ (qu), Turkmen guw, Shor қуу.

Noun

قوغو • (kuğu)

1. swan (Cygnus cygnus)

Derived terms

• قره قوغو (kara kuğu, “black swan”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kuğu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuğu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2823
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوغو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 985
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cygnus”, 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 318
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 3797–3798
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kuğu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1492