börü

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Crimean Tatar[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *bȫrü

Noun[edit]

börü

  1. wolf
    Synonyms: qaşqır, qurt, qarşqır

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *bȫrü, compare Old Turkic 𐰋𐰇𐰼𐰃 (böri), Yakut бөрө (börö), Turkmen bȫrü, Salar büüri.

Sometimes claimed to be an Iranian word (compare Digor Ossetian берӕгъ (beræǧ), Iron Ossetian бирӕгъ (biræǧ, wolf)), although Sergei Starostin argues against this. Corroborating this, Vasily I. Abaev elaborates that the East Iranian form itself is most likely borrowed from a Turkic source.[1]

Compare also Russian бирю́к (birjúk, lone wolf, loner) (see Аникин 128-129)[2]

Noun[edit]

börü (definite accusative börüyü, plural börülar)

  1. wolf

Usage notes[edit]

  • uncommon in contemporary standard Turkish or in vernacular speech. Lexical sources frame it in regional language compilations. “börü”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu (operator : Türkiye türkçesİ ağızları sözlüğü) parameter).

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 263, in: “*bȫrü.” in Sergei Starostin, Vladimir Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003), Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.
  2. ^ Аникин, А. Е. (2000), “börü”, in Этимологический словарь русских диалектов Сибири. Заимствования из уральских, алтайских и палеоазиатских языков [An Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Dialects of Siberia. Borrowings from Uralic, Altaic and Paleoasiatic Languages] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow and Novosibirsk: Nauka