چاغرغان
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From چاغرـ (çağır-, “to call, hail; to cry out, shout”) + ـغان (-gan).
Adjective
[edit]چاغرغان • (çağırgan)
- vociferous, clamorous, making or characterized by a noisy outcry
Derived terms
[edit]- چاغرغان طوی (çağırgan toy, “screaming bustard”)
- چاغرغان قاری (çağırgan karı, “shrewd, scold”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: çağırgan
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çağırgan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 852
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاغرغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 460
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاغرغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 272