كوكرجین

Ottoman Turkish

گوگرجین

Alternative forms

• կիւվէրճին (güvercin), կէօվէրճին (gövercin) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kȫkerčin (“dove, pigeon”); cognate with Azerbaijani göyərçin, Bashkir күгәрсен (kügərsen), Chuvash кӑвакарчӑн (kăvak̬arč̬ăn), Kazakh көгершін (kögerşın), Kyrgyz көгүчкөн (kögückön), Tatar күгәрчен (kügärçen) and Turkmen gögerçin. Possibly related to Kalmyk көглҗрһн (kögljrğn).

Noun

گوگرجین • (güğercin, güvercin)

1. pigeon, rock dove, any common bird of the species Columba livia

   Synonyms: حمامه (hamama), كبوتر (kebuter)

Derived terms

• چاقشیرلو گوگرجین (çakşırlı güvercin, “kind of pigeon feathered down to the toes”)
• گوكجه گوگرجین (gökce güvercin, “stock dove”)
• گوگرجین اوتی (güvercin otu, “vervain”)
• گوگرجین كوكی (güvercin kökü, “moonseed root”)
• گوگرجین پالازی (güvercin palazı, “squab”)
• گوگرجینلك (güvercinlik, “dovecote”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: güvercin
• → Armenian: կիւվէրճին (kiwvērčin), կէօվէրճին (kēōvērčin)
• → Laz: ჯუვერჯინი (cuvercini)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “güvercin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1814
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوكرجن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 403b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوكرجین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1056
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Columba”, 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 206
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوكرجن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4086
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güvercin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوكرجین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1599