بوزاغو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *buŕagu; cognate with Azerbaijani buzov, Karakhanid بُزاغُو (buzāɣū), Uyghur موزاي (mozay), Uzbek buzoq, Bashkir быҙау (bıźaw), Kazakh бұзау (būzau), Kyrgyz музоо (muzoo) and Hungarian borjú.

Noun

بوزاغو • (buzağı)

1. calf, a young cow or bull
2. young giraffe, elephant, rhino etc.

Derived terms

• بوزاغیلتمق (buzağılatmak, “to make or let calve”)
• بوزاغیلق (buzağılık, “last month of a season”)
• بوزاغیلمق (buzağılamak, “to calve”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: buzaa
• Turkish: buzağı

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوزاغو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 285
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vitulus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1776
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوزاغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 917–918
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “buzağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزاغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 398