اغو
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *ạ̄gu (“poison, venom; musk”); cognate with Azerbaijani ağı (“poison”), Salar ağu (“poison”) and Yakut ыы (ıı, “musk”).
Noun
اغو • (ağu)
- poison, venom
- Synonyms: زهر (zehr), سم (sem)
Descendants
- Turkish: ağı
- → Armenian: աղու (ału)
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 307–308
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 152