قزاغی

Ottoman Turkish

قزاغی

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kạŕïgu (“scraper”), from *kạŕï- (“to scratch, scrape, curry”), the same root of قازیمق (kazımak, “to scrape”).

Noun

قزاغی • (kazağı)

1. scraper, an instrument with which anything is scraped

   Synonyms: راسپه (raspa), قاشاغی (kaşağı)

Descendants

• Turkish: kazağı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kazağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2505
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قزاغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3688