بوجرغات

Ottoman Turkish

بوجرغات

Alternative forms

• بوجرغاد (bocurgad)
• պօճուրղատ (bocurğad), պօճուրղաթ (bocurğat) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Akin to Greek μποτζεργάτης (botzergátis), μποζαργάτης (bozargátis), μποτζαργάτης (botzargátis), whose second part is αργάτης (argátis), εργάτης (ergátis). The meaning and origin of the first part is obscure: Kerestedjian compares it to Italian poggia, from which Ottoman Turkish پوجه (poca, “leeward direction”).

Noun

بوجرغات • (bocurgat or bucurgat) (definite accusative بوجرغاتی (bocurgatı), plural بوجرغاتلر (bocurgatlar))

1. capstan, windlass, winch, crab, any mechanical device used to pull in or let out a rope or cable

   Synonyms: ارغات (ırgat), چقرق (çıkrık)

2. jack, a mechanical tool used to raise and support a heavy object, especially a motor vehicle

Descendants

• Turkish: bocurgat, bucurgat

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “بوجرغات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 318
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bocurgat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 639
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 508
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوجرغاد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 280
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 104
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bucurgat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوجرغات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 392