قره طاوق

Ottoman Turkish

قره طاوق

Etymology

From قره (kara, “black”) + طاوق (tavuk, “hen, fowl”).

Noun

قره طاوق • (kara tavuk)

1. blackbird, a common bird of the species Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia

Descendants

• Turkish: karatavuk

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طاوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 272
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karatavuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2425
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره طاوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 797
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Merula”, 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 1042