بوغدای

Ottoman Turkish

بوغدای

Alternative forms

• بغدای (boğday, buğday)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *boguday (“wheat”); cognate with Azerbaijani buğda, Bashkir бойҙай (boyźay), Kazakh бидай (bidai), Kyrgyz буудай (buuday), Southern Altai буудай (buuday), Turkmen bugdaý, Uyghur بۇغداي (bughday) and Uzbek bugʻdoy.

Noun

بوغدای • (boğday, buğday)

1. wheat, any of several cereal grains of the genus Triticum

   Synonyms: قمح (kamh), گندم (gendum)

Derived terms

• بوغدای بتی (buğday biti, “wheat weevil”)
• بوغدایجق (buğdaycık, “goatgrass”)
• دیش بوغدایی (diş buğdayı, “boiled wheat given to infants”)
• قره بوغدای (kara buğday, “buckwheat”)
• مصر بوغدایی (mısr buğdayı, “maize”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: buğday
• → Laz: ბოღდა (boğda)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “buğday”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 686
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوغدای”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 133a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بغدای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 270
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Frumentum”, 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 621
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوغدای”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 932
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “buğday”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغدای”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 403