بوق بوجكی

Ottoman Turkish

بوق بوجكی

Etymology

From بوق (bok, “feces, excrement”) + بوجك (böcek, “bug, insect”).

Noun

بوق بوجكی • (bok böceği)

1. dung beetle, dor, any of various beetles known for rolling dung into balls for use as food or as brooding chambers

Descendants

• Turkish: bok böceği

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “بوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 338
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bok böceği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 646
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوق بوجكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 290
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scarabæus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 933
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوق بوجكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 933
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوق بوجكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 405