قار قوشی

Ottoman Turkish

قار قوشی

Etymology

Compound of قار (kar, “snow”) +‎ قوش (kuş, “bird”).

Noun

قار قوشى • (kar kuşu)

snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)

Descendants

Turkish: kar kuşu

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kar kuşu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2408
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قار قوشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 923
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قار قوشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1411

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