𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *buka (“bull”). Cognate with, Hungarian bika, Turkish boğa (“bull”), Uzbek buqa, Bashkir Буға (Buğa, “Taurus”). Compare also Mongolian бух (bux), Manchu ᠪᡠᡴᠠ (buka, “ram”), possibly Turkic borrowings.

Noun

𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀 (buqa)

1. bull
   • 8th century CE, Tonyukuk Inscription, IW5-6

     𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰸𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰞𐰃:𐰾𐰢𐰔𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰞𐰃:𐰃𐰺𐰴𐰑𐰀:𐰋𐰇𐰭𐰾𐰼:𐰾𐰢𐰔𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀:𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰸:𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀:𐱅𐰘𐰤:𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰢𐰔𐰼𐰢𐰾:𐱅𐰘𐰤

     toruqbuqalï:semizbuqalï:ïraqda:büŋser:semizbuqa:toruq:buqa:téyin:bilmez:téyin

     I said to myself and I thought: If lean bulls and fat bulls kick one another at a distance, one cannot distinguish between lean bulls and fat bulls, they say.

See also

• 𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆 (buzaɣu)
• 𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (ingek)
• 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕 (öküz)

References

• Tekin, Talât (1968) “buqa”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, pages 320-321
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “buka:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 312
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*būka”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill