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Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *buka (“bull”). Cognate with, Hungarian bika, Turkish boğa (“bull”), Uzbek buqa, Bashkir Буға (Buğa, “Taurus”). Compare also Mongolian бух (bux), Manchu ᠪᡠᡴᠠ (buka, “ram”), possibly Turkic borrowings.
Noun
𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀 (buqa)
- bull
- 8th century CE, Tonyukuk Inscription, IW5-6
𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰸𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰞𐰃:𐰾𐰢𐰔𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰞𐰃:𐰃𐰺𐰴𐰑𐰀:𐰋𐰇𐰭𐰾𐰼:𐰾𐰢𐰔𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀:𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰸:𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀:𐱅𐰘𐰤:𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰢𐰔𐰼𐰢𐰾:𐱅𐰘𐰤- toruqbuqalï:semizbuqalï:ïraqda:büŋser:semizbuqa:toruq:buqa:téyin:bilmez:téyin
- I said to myself and I thought: If lean bulls and fat bulls kick one another at a distance, one cannot distinguish between lean bulls and fat bulls, they say.
See also
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) “buqa”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, pages 320-321
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “buka:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 312
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*būka”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill