قارغه

Ottoman Turkish

قارغه

Alternative forms

  • قرغه (karga)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *karga (crow); cognate with Azerbaijani qarğa, Bashkir ҡарға (qarğa), Kazakh қарға (qarğa), Kyrgyz карга (karga), Tatar карга (qarga), Turkmen garga, Uyghur قاغا (qagha) and Uzbek qargʻa.

Noun

قارغه • (karga)

  1. crow, any bird in the genus Corvus
    Synonym: غراب (gurab)

Derived terms

  • آلا قارغه (ala karga, hooded crow)
  • قارغه بورون (karga burun, aquiline nose)
  • قارغه بوكن (karga bukan, nux vomica)
  • قارغه دملكی (karga düleği, squirting cucumber)
  • قارغهجق (kargacık, little crow)
  • قرا قارغه (kara karga, carrion crow)

Descendants

  • Turkish: karga
  • Armenian: խառղա (xaṙġa)
  • ? Bulgarian: га́рга (gárga)
  • Greek: κάργα (kárga), κάργια (kárgia)

Further reading

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