صو آیغری
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From صو (su, “water”) + آیغر (ayğır, “stallion”).
Noun
صو آیغری • (su ayğırı)
- hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
- Synonym: آت بالغی (at balığı)
Descendants
- Turkish: su aygırı
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “su aygırı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4337
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “صو آیغری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 43
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صو آیغری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 299