بوغاز

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Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بوغاز (boğaz).

Pronunciation

Noun

بُوغَاز (būḡāzm (plural بَوَاغِيز (bawāḡīz))

  1. inlet

Declension

Khalaj

Noun

بوْغاز (boğaz) (definite accusative بوْغازؽ, plural بوْغازلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of boğaz (throat)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

بوغاز

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *boguŕ (throat); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰍𐰔 (boɣuz), Azerbaijani boğaz, Bashkir боғаҙ (boğaź), Chuvash пыр (pyr), Kyrgyz богуз (boguz), Turkmen bogaz, Uyghur بوغۇز (boghuz) and Uzbek boʼgʼiz.

Noun

بوغاز (boğaz) (plural بوغازلر)

  1. throat, the front part of the neck, between the chin and the breast
    Synonyms: حلق (halk), گلو (gulu)
  2. gullet, esophagus, the tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach
    Synonyms: حلق (halk), گلو (gulu), نای (nay)
  3. windpipe, trachea, the cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi
    Synonyms: حلق (halk), غرتلاق (gırtlak), گلو (gulu), نای (nay)
  4. (by extension) sound, strait, a narrow channel connecting two larger bodies of water
  5. (by extension) canyon, defile, gorge, any narrow pass between mountains
    Synonyms: حلق (halk), دره (dere)
  6. (in furriery) the fur of the throat of any beast

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Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boğaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 642
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوغاز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 133a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغاز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 288
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gula”, 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 676
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوغاز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 931
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boğaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغاز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 402
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “بوغاز”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 221