كركی

See also: كركي

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
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