توتورغان
Chagatai
Alternative forms
- توتورغو (tuturğu)
Etymology
The ending can be identified with the Mongolic plant name suffix ᠭᠠᠨᠠ (-ɣana) / -гана (-gana), however the rest is unexplained. Also frequent in Kipchak طوطرغان (tuturğan, tutarğan) and found in Old Turkic [script needed] (tuturkan) and Volga-Bulghar تتورغان (tuturğan, taturğan) (in نهج الفراديس). Now Mongolian тутарга (tutarga).
Noun
توتورغان (tuturğan)
- rice
Descendants
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: توترغن (tuturğan)
References
- Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) Dictionnaire turk-oriental (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 223
- Stachowski, Kamil (2008) Names of Cereals in the Turkic Languages (Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia; 11), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 67