bayquş

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Uncertain.[1] Perhaps similar development as in Ottoman Turkish باي (bay, rich) + قوش (kuš, bird).[2][3][4][5] Alternatively, inherited from Proto-Turkic *bāyk- (owl), and folk-etymologically connected to *kuĺ (bird).[6] Compare also بايقره (baykara, a bird of prey). Cognate with Turkish baykuş.

Noun

Other scripts
Cyrillic бајгуш
Roman bayquş
Perso-Arabic بایقۇش

bayquş (definite accusative bayquşu, plural bayquşlar)

  1. owl

Declension

References

  1. Sevortjan, E. V. (1978) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, pages 32–33
  2. Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1911) Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte (in German), volume IV, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1423
  3. Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 57a
  4. Tietze, Andreas (2002), baykuş”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 297
  5. Nişanyan, Sevan (2017-09-18), baykuş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  6. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *pā̀jkù”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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