قره بوغا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Compound of قره (kara, “black”) +‎ بوغا (boğa, “bull”).

Noun

قره بوغا • (kara boğa)

bull-buffalo, the adult male of a buffalo

Coordinate terms

بوفالو (bufalo, “buffalo”)

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره بوغا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 288
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره بوغا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 402

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