قره بوغاز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قره (“black”) + بوغاز (“throat”)

Noun

قره بوغاز • (kara boğaz)

1. the male house sparrow, a common bird with a black spot on its throat

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغاز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 403