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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian خرگله (xargale, “herd of donkeys”), a compound of خر (xar, “donkey”) + گله (galle, “herd, flock”).
Noun
خركله • (hergele) (definite accusative خركلهیی (hergeleyi), plural خركلهلر (hergeleler))
- herd of untamed or unbroken horses, mules and donkeys
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “خركله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 696
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hergele”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1935
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “خركله”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 208a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خركله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 537
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hergele”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خركله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 841