توتورغان

Chagatai

Alternative forms

توتورغو (tuturğu)

Etymology

The ending can be identified with the Mongolic plant name suffix ᠭᠠᠨᠠ (-ɣana) / -гана (-gana), however the rest is unexplained. Also frequent in Kipchak طوطرغان (tuturğan, tutarğan) and found in Old Turkic [script needed] (tuturkan) and Khorezmian Turkic تتورغان (tuturğan), تاتورغان (taturğan) (in نهج الفراديس). Now Mongolian тутарга (tutarga).

Noun

توتورغان (tuturğan)

rice

Descendants

→ Old Anatolian Turkish: توترغن (tuturğan)

References

Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “توتورغان”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎ (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 223
Stachowski, Kamil (2008) Names of Cereals in the Turkic Languages (Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia; 11)‎, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 67

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