طویغار

Ottoman Turkish

طویغار

Alternative forms

• طورغای (torgay) — non-standard by the late 19th century
• تویغار (toygar) — earlier alternative spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *torgay (“small bird; lark”); cognate with Azerbaijani torağay, Bashkir турғай (turğay), Kazakh торғай (torğai), Kyrgyz торгой (torgoy), Tatar тургай (turgay), Turkmen torğaý, Uyghur تورغاي (torghay) and Uzbek toʻrgʻay.

Noun

طویغار • (toygar)

1. lark, any of several perching birds of the family Alaudidae

   Synonyms: تارلا قوشی (tarla kuşu), چایر قوشی (çayır kuşu), قبر (kuber, kubber)

Derived terms

• تپه‌لو طویغار (tepeli toygar, “horned lark”)

Descendants

• Turkish: toygar

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “toygar1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4882
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طویغار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 825
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Alauda”, 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 45
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طویغار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3156
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “toygar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طویغار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1264