قارغه

Ottoman Turkish

قارغه

Alternative forms

• قرغه (karga)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karga (“crow”); cognate with Azerbaijani qarğa, Bashkir ҡарға (qarğa), Kazakh қарға (qarğa), Kyrgyz карга (karga), Tatar карга (qarga), Turkmen garga, Uyghur قاغا (qagha) and Uzbek qargʻa.

Noun

قارغه • (karga) (definite accusative قارغه‌یی (kargayı), plural قارغه‌لر (kargalar))

1. crow, any bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles

   Synonym: غراب (gurab)

Derived terms

• آلا قارغه (ala karga, “hooded crow”)
• آلاجه قارغه (alaca karga, “jackdaw”)
• اصلاق قارغه (ıslak karga, “miserable woman”, literally “wet crow”)
• اكین قارغه‌سی (ekin kargası, “rook”)
• باقر قارغه‌سی (bakır kargası, “kind of crow”)
• بوقلق قارغه‌سی (boklık kargası, “bluebottle, cop”, literally “dunghill crow”)
• خرسز قارغه (hırsız karga, “magpie”)
• دكز قارغه‌سی (deñiz kargası, “cormorant”)
• قارغه بورون (karga burun, “aquiline nose”)
• قارغه بوكن (karga büken, “nux vomica”)
• قارغه درنكی (karga derneği, “rookery; noisy meeting”)
• قارغه دلن (karga dilen, “soft almond”)
• قارغه دولكی (karga düleği, “squirting cucumber”)
• قارغه‌جق (kargacık, “little crow”)
• قالدرم قارغه‌سی (kaldırım kargası, “street Arab”, literally “pavement crow”)
• قره قارغه (kara karga, “carrion crow”)
• قزلجه قارغه (kızılca karga, “chough”)
• كستانه قارغه‌سی (kestane kargası, “nutcracker”)
• كوكجه قارغه (gökce karga, “jay”)
• یول قارغه‌سی (yol kargası, “usurer”, literally “street crow”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: garga
• Turkish: karga
• → Armenian: խառղա (xaṙġa)
• →? Bulgarian: га́рга (gárga)
• → Greek: κάργα (kárga), κάργια (kárgia)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قارغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 451
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karga1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2430
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قرغه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 361b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 925a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cornix”, 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 289
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قارغه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3580
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارغه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1411