طویغار
Ottoman Turkish
طویغار
Alternative forms
- طورغای (torgay) (non-standard by the late 19th century)
- تویغار (toygar) (earlier alternative spelling)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *torgay (“small bird; lark”); cognate with Azerbaijani torağay, Bashkir турғай (turğay), Kazakh торғай (torğai), Kyrgyz торгой (torgoy), Tatar тургай (turgay), Turkmen torğaý, Uyghur تورغاي (torghay) and Uzbek toʻrgʻay.
Noun
طویغار • (toygar)
- lark, any of several birds of the family Alaudidae
- Synonyms: تارلا قوشی (tarla kuşu), چایر قوشی (çayır kuşu)
Derived terms
- تپهلو طویغار (tepeli toygar, “horned lark”)
Descendants
- Turkish: toygar
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “toygar1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4882
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طویغار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 825
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Alauda”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 45
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “طویغار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3156
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “toygar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طویغار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1264
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