بلدرجین

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • بیلدرجین (bıldırcın)
  • պըլտըրճըն (bıldırcın)Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bïldur- (quail);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani bildirçin, Chuvash пӑлтӑрчан (pălt̬ărč̬an), Karakhanid بُدُرْسٖينْ (budursı:n), Kazakh бұлдырық (būldyryq) and Kipchak [script needed] (buyurçın).

Noun

بلدرجین • (bıldırcın)

  1. quail, any of various small game birds of the genus Coturnix
    Synonyms: سلوی (selva), سمان (seman)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: bıldırcın
  • Armenian: պըլտըրճին (pəltərčin)
  • Laz: ბულდუჯინი (bulducini)
  • Persian: بلدرچین (belderčin)

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “budursı:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 309

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