پاپاغان

Ottoman Turkish

پاپاغان

Etymology

From Arabic بَبَغَاء (babaḡāʔ, “parrot”), probably a word of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Classical Syriac ܒܒܓܐ (/⁠babbaggā⁠/), Old Armenian պապկայ (papkay) and Persian ببغا (babğâ).

Noun

پاپاغان • (papağan)

1. parrot, popinjay, any kind of bird of the order Psittaciformes

   Synonym: طوطی (dudu)

Derived terms

• پاپاغان یمی (papağan yemi, “safflower seeds”)

Descendants

• Turkish: papağan
• → Lithuanian: papūga
• → Polish: papuga
• → Old Ruthenian: папу́га (papúha)
  • Ukrainian: папу́га (papúha)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “papağan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3768
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پاپاغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 308
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “parrot”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 390a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “papağan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پاپاغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 429