بوقاغی

Ottoman Turkish

بوقاغی

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bukagu (“fetters, chain, string”); cognate with Azerbaijani buxov, Bashkir бығау (bığaw), Chuvash пӑхав (păh̬av), Kazakh бұғау (būğau), Uzbek boʻgʻov and Yakut бакаайы (bakaayı).

Noun

بوقاغی • (bukağı)

1. fetter, gyve, a chain used to bind the legs of a person

   Synonym: زنجیر (zincir)

2. hobble, a short strap tied between the legs of horses

   Synonym: كوستك (köstek)

Derived terms

• بوقاغیلتمق (bukağılatmak, “to make or let be fettered”)
• بوقاغیلق (bukağılık, “pastern”)
• بوقاغیلمق (bukağılamak, “to fetter”)
• بوقاغیلنمق (bukağılanmak, “to be fettered”)
• بوقاغیلو (bukağılı, “furnished with a fetter”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bukağı
• → Bulgarian: букаи́ (bukaí)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бука̀гије

  Latin script: bukàgije

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bukağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 689
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوقاغی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 133b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوقاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 290
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Compes”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 219
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوقاغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 933
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bukağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوقاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 405