قوزغونجق

Ottoman Turkish

قوزغونجق

Etymology

From قوزغون (kuzgun, “raven”) +‎ ـجق (-cuk, diminutive suffix).

Noun

قوزغونجق • (kuzguncuk)

1. Diminutive of قوزغون (kuzgun, “raven”):
   1. the small grilled window or wicket in the gate of a prison

Descendants

• Turkish: kuzguncuk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuzguncuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2877
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوزغونجق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 982
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوزغونجق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1488