بوزاغو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *buŕagu; cognate with Azerbaijani buzov, Karakhanid بُزاغُو (buzāɣū), Uyghur موزاي (mozay), Uzbek buzoq, Bashkir быҙау (bıźaw), Kazakh бұзау (būzau), Kyrgyz музоо (muzoo) and Hungarian borjú.

Noun

بوزاغو • (buzağı)

  1. calf, a young cow or bull
  2. young giraffe, elephant, rhino etc.

Derived terms
  • بوزاغیلتمق (buzağılatmak, “to make or let calve”)
  • بوزاغیلق (buzağılık, “last month of a season”)
  • بوزاغیلمق (buzağılamak, “to calve”)

Descendants
  • Gagauz: buzaa
  • Turkish: buzağı

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوزاغو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 285
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vitulus”, 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 1776
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوزاغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 917–918
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “buzağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزاغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 398
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