تاغوغ

Chagatai

Alternative forms

  • تاغوق (tağuq)
  • تاقوغ (taquğ), تقوق (taquq)
  • تاووغ (tavuğ), تاوق (tavuq)
  • تاخوق (taxuq)
  • توخی (toxi), توخو (toxu)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *takïgu.

Noun

تاغوغ (tağuğ) (plural تاغوغلار)

  1. hen, an adult female of the species Gallus gallus
  2. fowl, any bird in the order Galliformes

Descendants

  • > Uzbek: tovuq (inherited)
  • > Uyghur: توخۇ (toxu) (inherited)

References

  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “تاغوغ”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 201
  • Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880) “تاوق”, in “Turki-English vocabulary” (chapter 2), in A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Káshgar and Yarkand)[2], Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, page 67
  • el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) “تاغوغ”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎[3] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 101