آغاج قاقان
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From آغاج (ağac, “tree”) + قاقان (kakan, “pushin, tapping”).
Noun
[edit]- woodpecker, any bird of the family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: ağaçkakan
Further reading
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آغاج قاقان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 931
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Picus”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1299
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آغاج قاقان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1419