جورا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جره (jurra), which is akin to Old Armenian ճուռակ (čuṙak), Arabic زُرَّق (zurraq).

Adjective

جورا • (cura)

  1. puny, small

Noun

جورا • (cura)

  1. A shrill-voiced horn, similar to a clarion.
  2. A shrill-voiced variety of hawk, possibly the red-footed falcon (Falco vespertinus).

Descendants

  • Turkish: cura
  • → Albanian: xhura

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.