buzağı
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بوزاغو (buzağu), بوزاغی (buzağı, “a sucking calf”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (buzağu, “calf”), from Proto-Turkic *buŕagu (“calf”). Compare Hungarian borjú (“calf”), a borrowing from Bulgar *burǝʷu. Compare also Turkish dialectal buza- (“to bear a calf”).
cognates
Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (buzāɣū, “calf”), Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆 (buzaɣu, “calf”), Azerbaijani buzov (“calf”), Bashkir быҙау (bıźaw, “calf”), Chuvash пӑру (păru, “calf”), Kazakh бұзау (būzau, “calf”), Khakas пызо (pızo, “calf”), Kyrgyz музоо (muzoo, “calf”), Tatar бозау (bozaw, “calf”), Tuvan бызаа (bızaa, “calf”), Uyghur موزاي (mozay, “calf”), Uzbek buzoq (“calf”).
Noun
buzağı (definite accusative buzağıyı, plural buzağılar)
Declension
Related terms
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “buzağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Emine Yılmaz (2013), “The Position of Chuvash in the Comparative Altaic Linguistics Studies III”, Leyla Karahan Armağanı, s. 925-932, Hacettepe University, Ankara: Akçağ Yay.