بايقوش

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Uncertain.[1] Perhaps from بای‎ (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 بایقره‎ (baykara, “a bird of prey”).

Cognate with Azerbaijani bayquş, Turkmen bāýguş, Kazakh байғыз (bayğız), Persian [script needed] (bâyğuš) (a Turkic borrowing).

Noun

بايقوش • (baykuš)[7]

  1. owl
    Synonyms: بوم‎ (bum), قوقوماو‎ (kukumav)

Descendants
  • Turkish: baykuş
  • → Armenian: բայղուշ (bayłuš), պայխուշ (payxuš)
  • → Middle Armenian: պայղուշ (payłuš)
  • → Bulgarian: байкуш (bajkuš)

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
  7. Karapetean, Petros Zēkʿi (1912), “بايقوش”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 162b
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