كركی

See also: كركي

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كُرْكِيّ (kurkiyy, “crane”), from Aramaic כּוּרְכְּיׇא.

Noun

كركی • (kürki) (plural كراكی (keraki))

1. crane, any of the large freshwater birds in the family Gruidae

   Synonyms: طورنه (turna), كلنگ (küleng)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Grus”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 675
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كركی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1540