بلدرچین
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Turkic, likely from Ottoman Turkish بلدرجین (bıldırcın) or Azerbaijani bildirçin, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bïldur-, *buldïr- (“quail”).[1] Largely displaced Classical Persian وَرْتِیج (wartīj) in Iranian Persian.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /bil.diɾ.ˈt͡ʃiːn/
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [bel̪.d̪eɹ.t͡ʃʰíːn]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | bildirčīn |
| Iranian reading? | belderčin |
Noun
بلدرچین • (belderčin) (plural بلدرچینها) (Iran)
- quail
- تخم بلدرچین ― toxm-e belderčin ― quail eggs
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bɨldur- (*buldɨr-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill