بوغا

Ottoman Turkish

بوغا

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *buka (“bull”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰸𐰀 (b¹uq̊¹a /⁠buqa⁠/), Azerbaijani buğa, Bashkir Буға (Buğa), Kazakh бұқа (būqa), Kyrgyz бука (buka), Tatar бога (boğa), Turkmen buga, Uyghur بۇقا (buqa) and Uzbek buga.

Noun

بوغا • (boğa) (definite accusative بوغایی (boğayı), plural بوغالر (boğalar))

1. bull, a domesticated adult male of the species Bos taurus, specifically one that is uncastrated

   Synonym: ثور (sevr)

2. (astronomy) Taurus, a constellation of the zodiac located in the northern celestial hemisphere
3. (astrology) Taurus, the zodiac sign for the bull covering April 21 - May 21 or May 16 - June 15

Derived terms

• بوغا دیكنی (boğa dikeni, “milk thistle”)
• بوغا یپراغی (boğa yaprağı, “fleabane”)
• بوغالامق (boğalamak, “to calve”)
• قره بوغا (kara boğa, “bull buffalo”)
• كله بوغا (kele boğa, “wanton, a lewd man”, literally “young bull”)

Descendants

• Turkish: boğa
• → Bulgarian: буга́ (bugá), буа́ (buá)
• → Greek: μπουγάς (bougás)
• → Middle Armenian: բուղայ (buġay)
  • Armenian: բուղա (buġa)
• → Romanian: bugă
• → Ubykh: быӷәы (bəğʷə)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “بوغا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 334
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boğa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 641
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 288
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوغا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 132b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Taurus”, 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 1651
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوغا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 929–930
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boğa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 402