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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قراغو (kırağu) or قراغی (kırağı),[1][2] from Proto-Turkic *kïragu (“frost, hoarfrost”),[3] thought to be related to Classical Mongolian ᠬᠢᠷᠠᠭᠤ (qiraɣu, “frost”).[4][5]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɯ.ɾaˈɰɯ/, (colloquial) /kɯˈɾaː/
- Hyphenation: kı‧ra‧ğı
Noun
kırağı (definite accusative kırağıyı, plural kırağılar)
- hoar frost, frost, rime, frozen dew forming a white deposit on grass and plants
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قراغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1443
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قراغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 951
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kɨr-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kıra:ğu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 656
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kırağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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