كوكرجین
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- կիւվէրճին (güvercin), կէօվէրճին (gövercin) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kȫkerčin (“dove, pigeon”); cognate with Azerbaijani göyərçin, Bashkir күгәрсен (kügərsen), Chuvash кӑвакарчӑн (kăvak̬arč̬ăn), Kazakh көгершін (kögerşın), Kyrgyz көгүчкөн (kögückön), Tatar күгәрчен (kügärçen) and Turkmen gögerçin. Possibly related to Kalmyk көглҗрһн (kögljrğn).
Noun
[edit]گوگرجین • (güğercin, güvercin)
- pigeon, rock dove, any common bird of the species Columba livia
Derived terms
[edit]- چاقشیرلو گوگرجین (çakşırlı güvercin, “kind of pigeon feathered down to the toes”)
- گوكجه گوگرجین (gökce güvercin, “stock dove”)
- گوگرجین اوتی (güvercin otu, “vervain”)
- گوگرجین كوكی (güvercin kökü, “moonseed root”)
- گوگرجین پالازی (güvercin palazı, “squab”)
- گوگرجینلك (güvercinlik, “dovecote”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: güvercin
- → Armenian: կիւվէրճին (kiwvērčin), կէօվէրճին (kēōvērčin)
- → Laz: ჯუვერჯინი (cuvercini)
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “güvercin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1814
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوكرجن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 403b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوكرجین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1056
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Columba”, 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 206
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوكرجن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4086
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güvercin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوكرجین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1599