قارغه بورون

Ottoman Turkish

قارغه بورون

Etymology

From قارغه (karga, “crow”) + بورون (burun, “nose”).

Noun

قارغه بورون • (karga burun)

1. aquiline nose, Roman nose, a nose with a hooked shape
2. pliers, a pincer-like tool often used for bending things

Descendants

• Turkish: kargaburun

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kargaburun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2431
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارغه بورون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 925
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارغه بورون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1413