توترغن

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Chagatai توتورغان (tuturğan, “rice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tutuɾˈɣɑn]

Noun

توترغن (tuturğan)

1. (rare) rice
   • XIII^th century [from a XVI^th century copy], Şeyyad Hamza, Şeyyād Ĥamza fermāyed‎^[1]; republished as Aziz Merhan, editor, Şeyyâd Ĥamza’nın Yeni Bir Şiiri (translation of Milan Adamović 1996), Dumlupınar, 2005:

     اَغْزِنیٖ قارِنْجَلَرْایِنْ اَیْلَمِشْ
     داَنَه تُوتُرْغَنْ یِرِکَنْ قَازِلَه

     aɣzïnï qarïnjalar in äylämiš
     dānä tuturɣan yerikän qazïla

     Ants have nested their mouths
     They will scrape their place even [as to the last] rice grain.

References

• Adamović, Milan (1996) “Ein weiteres Gedicht von Şeyyād Ḥamza”, in Materialia Turcica, volume 17, page 93 of 87–102