قره طاوق

قره طاوق

Ottoman Turkish

قره طاوق

Etymology

Compound of قره‎ (kara, “black”) +‎ طاوق‎ (tavuk, “hen, fowl”).

Noun

قره طاوق‎ • (kara tavuk)

1. blackbird, a common bird of the species Turdus merula

Descendants

• Turkish: karatavuk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “karatavuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2425
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قره طاوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 797
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Merula”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1042