قوقله

Ottoman Turkish

قوقله‌لر

Etymology

From Greek κούκλα (koúkla, “doll, puppet, marionette”), itself from Latin cuculla (“hood”).

Noun

قوقله • (kukla)

1. doll, puppet, marionette, any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods

   Synonym: ببك (bebek)

Derived terms

• قوقله‌جی (kuklacı, “maker or seller of puppets”)
• كیرلو قوقله (kirli kukla, “untidy woman”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kukla
• → Armenian: քուքլա (kʻukʻla)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kukla1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2824
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوقله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 985
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pupa”, 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 1409
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوقله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3798
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kukla”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوقله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1493