بوغا
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *buka (“bull”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀 (b¹uq̊¹a /buqa/), Azerbaijani buğa, Bashkir Буға (Buğa), Kazakh бұқа (būqa), Kyrgyz бука (buka), Tatar бога (boğa), Turkmen buga, Uyghur بۇقا (buqa) and Uzbek buga.
Noun
[edit]بوغا • (boğa)
- bull, an adult male of the species Bos taurus
- Synonym: ثور (sevr)
- (astronomy) Taurus, a constellation of the zodiac
- (astrology) Taurus, a zodiac sign for the bull
Derived terms
[edit]- بوغا دیكنی (boğa dikeni, “milk thistle”)
- بوغا یپراغی (boğa yaprağı, “fleabane”)
- قره بوغا (kara boğa, “bull buffalo”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boğa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 641
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 288
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Taurus”, 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 1651
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوغا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, columns 929–930
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boğa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 402