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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic كُرْكِيّ (kurkiyy, “crane”), from Aramaic כּוּרְכְּיׇא.
Noun
كركی • (kürki) (plural كراكی (keraki))
- 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