اركج

Ottoman Turkish

اركج

Alternative forms

• ارگج (ergec)

Etymology

Possibly a blend of اركك (erkek, “male”) +‎ كچی (keçi, “goat”).

Noun

اركج • (erkec)

1. billy goat, buck, an adult male of the species Capra hircus

   Synonyms: تكه (teke), تیس (teys), نهاز (nihaz)

Descendants

• Turkish: erkeç, ergeç

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “erkeç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1470
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اركج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 23b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اركج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 69
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hædus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 684
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اركج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 148
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “erkeç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اركج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 71