اغو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ạ̄gu (“poison, venom; musk”); cognate with Azerbaijani ağı (“poison”), Salar ağu (“poison”) and Yakut ыы (ıı, “musk”).

Noun

اغو • (ağu)

1. poison, venom

   Synonyms: اوت (ot), زهر (zehr), سم (sem)

Derived terms

• اغو آغاجی (ağu ağacı, “oleander”)
• اغو اوتی (ağu otu, “hemlock”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ağı
• → Armenian: աղու (aġu)
• → Laz: აღუ (ağu)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ağı2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 136
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آغو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 24
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Venenum”, 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 1729
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 307–308
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 152