قره قوش

Ottoman Turkish

قره قوش

Etymology

From قره (kara, “black”) + قوش (kuş, “bird”).

Noun

قره قوش • (kara kuş)

1. eagle, any of several birds of prey in the subfamily Aquilinae

   Synonyms: دال (dal), عقاب (ʿukab), قرتال (kartal)

2. spavin, a bony swelling developed on the hock of a horse

Descendants

• Turkish: karakuş
• → Armenian: խարախուշ (xaraxuš), ղարաղուշ (ġaraġuš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karakuş1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2419
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره قوش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 983
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Aquila”, 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 77
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره قوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1489