صو آیغری
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From صو (su, “water”) + آیغر (ayğır, “stallion”).
Noun
[edit]- hippopotamus, any large, semi-aquatic mammal of the species Hippopotamus amphibius
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: su aygırı
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “su aygırı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4337
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صو آیغری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 43
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “hippopotamus”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 243a
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صو آیغری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 299