قزاغی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kaŕïgu (“scraper”), from *kaŕï- (“to scratch, scrape, curry”), the same root of قازیمق (kazımak, “to scrape”).
Noun
قزاغی • (kazağı)
- scraper, an instrument with which anything is scraped
Descendants
- Turkish: kazağı
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kazağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2505
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قزاغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, column 3688