بوكار

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بیكار (bıñar), پیكار (pıñar)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (bïŋar, “spring”), from Proto-Turkic *bïŋar.

Noun

بوكار • (buñar)

1. fountain, spring

   Synonyms: چشمه (çeşme), قایناق (kaynak)

2. well

   Synonym: قیو (kuyu)

Derived terms

• بوكار باشی (buñar başı)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pınar
• → Albanian: bunar
• → Aromanian: bunar
• → Bulgarian: буна́р (bunár)
• → Greek: μπουνάρι (bounári) — Cretan
• → Macedonian: бунар (bunar)
• → Romani:

  Balkan Romani: bunari

  Vlax Romani: bunari

• → Romanian: bunar
• → Serbo-Croatian: bùnār／бу̀на̄р

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوكار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 406a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوكار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 290b