جنت قوشی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From جنت (cennet, “paradise”) + قوش (kuş, “bird”).
Noun
- bird of paradise, any of various passerine birds of the family Paradisaeidae
Descendants
- Turkish: cennet kuşu
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cennet kuşu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 777
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جنت قوشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 447
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جنت قوشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 681