بوق بوجكی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From بوق (bok, “feces, excrement”) + بوجك (böcek, “bug, insect”).
Noun
Descendants
- Turkish: bok böceği
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “بوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 338
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bok böceği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 646
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوق بوجكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 290
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scarabæus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[2], Vienna, column 933
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوق بوجكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 933
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوق بوجكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 405