ییلانجیل
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Etymology
[edit]From ییلان (yılan, “snake”) + ـجیل (-cil).
Noun
[edit]ییلانجیل • (yılancıl)
- sacred ibis, any wading bird of the species Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Synonym: مصر طورنهسی (Mısır turnası)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: yılancıl
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yılancıl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5319
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلانجیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2224