bıldırcın
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish بلدرجین (bıldırcın, “quail”), from Proto-Turkic *bïldur-, *buldïr- (“quail”) + *-čin.[1] Cognate with Chuvash пӑлтӑрчан (pălt̬ărč̬an).
Noun
editbıldırcın (definite accusative bıldırcını, plural bıldırcınlar)
Declension
editReferences
edit- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bïldur- (*buldïr-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
edit- “bıldırcın”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu