قوقوماو

Ottoman Turkish

قوقوماو

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek κουκουβάγια (koukouvágia, “owl”), a word of onomatopoeic origin; compare Albanian kukuvajkë, Bulgarian кукумявка (kukumjavka), Italian coccoveggia and Romanian cucuvea.

Noun

قوقوماو • (kukumav)

1. little owl, a species of small owl (Athene noctua)

Descendants

• Turkish: kukumav
• → Ubykh: кәыкәм'ав' (kʷʼəkʷʼṃaṿ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kukumav”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2824
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوقوماو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 986
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kukumav”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوقوماو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1491
• Tietze, Andreas (1955) “Griechische Lehnwörter im anatolischen Türkisch”, in Oriens (in German), volume 8, number 2, →DOI, § 147, page 227