قارغه

Ottoman Turkish

قارغه

Alternative forms

  • قرغه (karga)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karga (crow); cognate with Azerbaijani qarğa, Bashkir ҡарға (qarğa), Kazakh қарға (qarğa), Kyrgyz карга (karga), Tatar карга (qarga), Turkmen garga, Uyghur قاغا (qagha) and Uzbek qargʻa.

Noun

قارغه (karga)

  1. crow, any bird in the genus Corvus
    Synonym: غراب (gurab)

Derived terms

  • آلا قارغه (ala karga, hooded crow)
  • قارغه بورون (karga burun, aquiline nose)
  • قارغه بوكن (karga bukan, nux vomica)
  • قارغه دملكی (karga düleği, squirting cucumber)
  • قارغهجق (kargacık, little crow)
  • قرا قارغه (kara karga, carrion crow)

Descendants

  • Turkish: karga
  • ? Bulgarian: га́рга (gárga)
  • Greek: κάργα (kárga), κάργια (kárgia)

Further reading

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