buzağı
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish بوزاغو (buzağu), بوزاغی (buzağı, “a sucking calf”),[1] from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (buzağu, “calf”), from Proto-Turkic *buŕagu (“calf”).[2][3] Compare Hungarian borjú (“calf”), a borrowing from Bulgar [script needed] (*burǝʷu). Compare also Turkish dialectal buza- (“to bear a calf”).
Cognates
- Azerbaijani buzov
- Bashkir быҙау (bıźaw)
- Chuvash пӑру (păru)
- Crimean Tatar бузав buzav
- Gagauz buza
- Karakhanid بُوزاغُو (buzāɣū)
- Kazakh бұзау (būzau)
- Khakas пызо (pızo)
- Kumyk бузав (buzaw)
- Kyrgyz музоо (muzoo)
- Nogai бузав (buzav)
- Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆 (b¹uzǧu /buzaɣu/)
- Tatar бозау (bozaw)
- Turkmen buzaw
- Tuvan бызаа (bızaa)
- Uyghur موزاي (mozay)
- Uzbek buzoq
Noun edit
buzağı (definite accusative buzağıyı, plural buzağılar)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزاغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 398
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*buŕa-gu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “buzağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading edit
- “buzağı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Emine Yılmaz (2013), “The Position of Chuvash in the Comparative Altaic Linguistics Studies III”, Leyla Karahan Armağanı, s. 925-932, Hacettepe University, Ankara: Akçağ Yay.