قارغه بورون
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From قارغه (karga, “crow”) + بورون (burun, “nose”).
Noun
[edit]- aquiline nose, Roman nose, a nose with a hooked shape
- pliers, a pincer-like tool often used for bending things
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kargaburun
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kargaburun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2431
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارغه بورون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 925
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارغه بورون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1413