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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بوزاغو (buzağu), بوزاغی (buzağı, “a sucking calf”),[1] from Old Anatolian Turkish (buzağu, “calf”), from Proto-Turkic *buŕagu (“calf”).[2][3][4] Compare Hungarian borjú (“calf”), a borrowing from Bulgar (*burǝʷu). Compare also Turkish dialectal buza- (“to bear a calf”).
Pronunciation
Noun
buzağı (definite accusative buzağıyı, plural buzağılar)
- unweaned calf
Declension
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزاغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 398
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “buza:ğu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 391
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*buŕa-gu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “buzağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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