burağan
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بوراغان (burağan, “whirlwind, tornado”) either from bur- (“to twist”) + -ağan (“habitual suffix”), or derived from Proto-Turkic *bora- (“north wind; to snow heavily”), the same root of bora (“squall”).
Noun
[edit]burağan (definite accusative burağanı, plural burağanlar)
- whirlwind, tornado, a violent windstorm characterized by the formation of a vortex of air
- Synonym: hortum
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | burağan | burağanlar |
| definite accusative | burağanı | burağanları |
| dative | burağana | burağanlara |
| locative | burağanda | burağanlarda |
| ablative | burağandan | burağanlardan |
| genitive | burağanın | burağanların |
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burağan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 699