ییلانجیل

Ottoman Turkish

ییلانجیل

Etymology

From ییلان (yılan, “snake”) +‎ ـجیل (-cil).

Noun

ییلانجیل • (yılancıl)

sacred ibis, any wading bird of the species Threskiornis aethiopicus
Synonym: مصر طورنه‌سی (Mısır turnası)

Descendants

Turkish: yılancıl

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yılancıl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5319
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلانجیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2224

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