baykuş

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بایقوش‎ (baykuş), from بای‎ (bay, “rich”) + قوش‎ (kuš, “bird”).[1][2][3][4] Alternatively, inherited from Proto-Turkic *bāyk- (“owl”), and folk-etymologically connected to *kuĺ (“bird”).[5] Compare also بایقره‎ (baykara, “a bird of prey”). Cognate with Azerbaijani bayquş, Turkmen baýguş (ba:ýguş), Kazakh байғыз (baiğyz), Persian بایقوش‎ (bâyquš) (a Turkic borrowing).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɑjkuʃ/
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Noun

baykuş (definite accusative baykuşu, plural baykuşlar)

  1. owl

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (in German and Russian), volume IV, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1423
  2. Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 57a
  3. Tietze, Andreas (2002), “baykuş”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 297
  4. Nişanyan, Sevan (2017-09-18), “baykuş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  5. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*pā̀jkù”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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