چوپور

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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Noun

چوپور • (çopur)

1. conspicuous mark on the body, such as a pockmark or a mother's mark
2. fallow deer (Dama dama) or hog deer (Hyelaphus porcinus)
3. any kind of young spotted antelope

Derived terms

• چوپورلو (çopurlu)

Descendants

• Turkish: çopur
• → Armenian: չոփուր (čʻopʻur)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چوپور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 1673–1674
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوپور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 734