آغاج قاقان

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Ottoman Turkish

آغاج قاقان

Etymology

From آغاج (ağac, “tree”) + قاقان (kakan, “pushin, tapping”).

Noun

آغاج قاقان • (ağac kakan)

  1. woodpecker, any bird of the family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood

Descendants

  • Turkish: ağaçkakan

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آغاج قاقان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 931
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Picus”, 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, Vienna, column 1299
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آغاج قاقان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1419
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