سقا قوشی
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From سقا (saka, “water carrier”) + قوش (kuş, “bird”).
Noun
[edit]- pelican, any of various large seabirds of the family Pelecanidae
- goldfinch, any small passerine bird of the species Carduelis carduelis
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: saka kuşu, saka
- → Armenian: սախա խուշի (saxa xuši), սախախուշ (saxaxuš), սախա (saxa)
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “saka kuşu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4025
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سقا قوشی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 271a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سقا قوشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 682
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Carduelis”, 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 153
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سقا قوشی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 2631
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سقا قوشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1063