پاپاغان
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Arabic بَبَغَاء (babaḡāʔ, “parrot”), probably a word of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Classical Syriac ܒܒܓܐ (/babbaggā/), Old Armenian պապկայ (papkay) and Persian ببغا (babğâ).
Noun[edit]
پاپاغان • (papağan)
- parrot, popinjay, any kind of bird of the order Psittaciformes
- Synonym: طوطی (dudu)
Derived terms[edit]
- پاپاغان یمی (papağan yemi, “safflower seeds”)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: papağan
- → Lithuanian: papūga
- → Polish: papuga
- → Old Ruthenian: папу́га (papúha)
- Ukrainian: папу́га (papúha)
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “papağan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3768
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پاپاغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 308
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “parrot”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 390a
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “papağan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پاپاغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 429