قار قوشی

Ottoman Turkish

قار قوشی

Etymology

Compound of قار (kar, “snow”) +‎ قوش (kuş, “bird”).

Noun

قار قوشى • (kar kuşu)

1. snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)

Descendants

• Turkish: kar kuşu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kar kuşu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2408
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قار قوشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 923
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قار قوشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1411