یلدز بوجكی

Ottoman Turkish

یلدز بوجكی

Etymology

From یلدز (yıldız, “star”) + بوجك (böcek, “bug”).

Noun

یلدز بوجكی • (yıldız böceği)

1. firefly, glowworm, any bioluminescent beetle of the family Lampyridae

   Synonym: آتش بوجكی (ateş böceği)

Descendants

• Turkish: yıldız böceği

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yıldız böceği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5321
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یلدز بوجكی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 510a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یلدز بوجكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1356
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یلدز بوجكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2208