كركی

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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, Vienna, column 675
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كركی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1540