итаркӏо

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Avar

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Etymology

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Together with Lak итаргу (itargu) and Lezgi талгу (talgu, kite) borrowed from Turkic: compare Kumyk ителги (itelgi, saker falcon), Old Turkic [script needed] (itarči, falconer), Uyghur итәлгү (itelgü, kestrel).

Noun

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итаркӏо (itarkʼo)

  1. harrier (bird of prey)

Further reading

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  • Džidalajev, N. S. (1990) Tjurkizmy v dagestanskix jazykax: opyt istoriko-etimologičeskovo analiza [Turkicisms in Daghestanian Languages: An Attempt of Historical-Etymological Analysis], Moscow: Nauka, page 88
  • Graham, Cyril (1881) “The Avâr Language”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society[1], volume 13, number 3, page 319, glossing as "vulture"