بایقوش
Azerbaijani
Noun
بایقوش (bayquş)
- Alternative spelling of بایقۇش
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Uncertain.[1] Perhaps from بای (bay, “rich”) + قوش (kuš, “bird”).[2][3][4][5] Alternatively, inherited from Proto-Turkic *bāyk- (“owl”), and folk-etymologically connected to *kuĺ (“bird”).[6] Compare also بایقره (baykara, “a bird of prey”).
Cognate with Azerbaijani bayquş, Turkmen bāýguş, Kazakh байғыз (baiğyz), Persian بایقوش (bâyğuš) (a Turkic borrowing).
Noun
بایقوش • (baykuš)[7]
- owl
- Synonyms: بوم (bum), قوقوماو (kukumav)
Descendants
- Turkish: baykuş
- → Georgian: ბაიყუში (baiq̇uši)
- → Middle Armenian: պայղուշ (payłuš), պայըկուշ (payəkuš)
- → Armenian: բայղուշ (bayłuš), պայխուշ (payxuš)
- → Bulgarian: байкуш (bajkuš)
References
- Sevortjan, E. V. (1978) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, pages 32–33
- Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1911) Opyt slovarja tjurkskix narěčij – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (in German and Russian), volume IV, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1423
- Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 57a
- Tietze, Andreas (2002), “baykuş”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 297
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2017-09-18), “baykuş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*pā̀jkù”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Karapetean, Petros Zēkʿi (1912), “بایقوش”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 162b