𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆
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Old Turkic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *buŕagu (“calf”). Cognate with Chuvash пӑру (păru), Turkish buzağı, Uzbek buzoq, Bashkir быҙау (bıźaw). Compare also Proto-Mongolic *biraxu, Hungarian borjú, Turkic borrowings.
Noun[edit]
𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆 (buzaɣu)
- calf
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 41
- 𐰇𐰼𐰇𐰭:𐰾𐰼𐰃:𐰃𐰼𐰚𐰚:𐰉𐰆𐰔𐰍𐰆:𐰚𐰠𐰇𐰼𐰢𐰃𐰾
- ürüŋ:esri:érkek:buzaɣu:kelürmiš
- (Nevertheless) she gave birth to a white-spotted bull calf.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 41
Derived terms[edit]
- 𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰀𐰍𐰆𐰞𐰀 (buzaɣula-)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “buz(a)gu”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 53
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “buza:ğu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 391
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*buŕa-gu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill