börü

See also: boru, bóru, ború, borů, bórů, and bőrű

Crimean Tatar

Noun

börü

wolf

Declension

Declension of börü

nominative	börü
genitive	börüniñ
dative	börüge
accusative	börüni
locative	börüde
ablative	börüden

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *böri, compare Old Turkic [script needed] (böri), Yakut бөрө (börö), Turkmen bȫrü.

Sometimes claimed to be an Iranian word, although Sergei Starostin argues against this. Corroborating this, Vasily I. Abaev elaborates that the East Iranian form itself is most likely borrowed from a Turkic source.[1] The word is not found in any other Indo-European language.[2]

Compare also Russian бирюк (birjuk, “lone wolf, loner”) (see Аникин 128-129)[3]

Noun

börü (definite accusative börüyü, plural börülar)

wolf

Synonyms

kurt

References

V. I. Abaev: Историкоэтимологический словарь осетинского языка, т. 1 // A Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language, vv. 1. Moscow-Leningrad. 1958-1995. p.263.
Karatay, İran İle Turan, p.186
Аникин А. Е. [A. Ye. Anikin]. Этимологический словарь русских диалектов Сибири. Заимствования из уральских, алтайских и палеоазиатских языков [An Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Dialects of Siberia. Borrowings from Uralic, Altaic and Paleoasiatic Languages]. Москва-Новосибирск [Moscow, Novosibirsk].

[1] V. I. Abaev: Историкоэтимологический словарь осетинского языка, т. 1 // A Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language, vv. 1. Moscow-Leningrad. 1958-1995. p.263.

[2] Karatay, İran İle Turan, p.186

[3] Аникин А. Е. [A. Ye. Anikin]. Этимологический словарь русских диалектов Сибири. Заимствования из уральских, алтайских и палеоазиатских языков [An Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Dialects of Siberia. Borrowings from Uralic, Altaic and Paleoasiatic Languages]. Москва-Новосибирск [Moscow, Novosibirsk].