پاپاغان
Ottoman Turkish
پاپاغان
Etymology
From Arabic بَبَغَاء (babaḡāʔ, “parrot”), probably a word of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Classical Syriac ܒܒܓܐ (/babbaggā/), Old Armenian պապկայ (papkay) and Persian ببغا (babğâ).
Noun
پاپاغان • (papağan)
- parrot, popinjay, any kind of bird of the order Psittaciformes
- Synonym: طوطی (dudu)
Derived terms
- پاپاغان یمی (papağan yemi, “safflower seeds”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “papağan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3768
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پاپاغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 308
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “parrot”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 390a
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “papağan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پاپاغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 429
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