baykuş
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish بایقوش (baykuş), from بای (bay, “rich”) + قوش (kuš, “bird”).[1][2][3][4]
Compare also بایقره (baykara, “hawk”). Cognate with Azerbaijani bayquş, Turkmen baýguş (ba:ýguş), Kazakh байғыз (baiğyz), Persian بایقوش (bâyquš) (a Turkic borrowing).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]baykuş (definite accusative baykuşu, plural baykuşlar)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects], volume IV (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1423
- ^ Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 57a
- ^ Tietze, Andreas (2002) “baykuş”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 297
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2017-09-18) “baykuş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük