𐰇𐰯𐰏𐰇𐰚

üpgük

Meaning:
hoopoe bird
Details:
An onomatopoeic bird name, probably based on an imitative element üp / üpüp representing the hoopoe’s call; cf. later forms übük, ibük, Turkish ibik, ibibik, and Chagatai püpük, püpüş.

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.
Language Cognate
Turkmen -
Turkish (Azerbaijan) -
Turkish (Türkiye) ibik
Salar -
Gagauz -
Crimean -
Uyghur -
Uzbek -
Kazakh -
Nogai -
Siberian Tatar -
Kyrgyz -
Altai -
Alan -
Kumyk -
Tatar -
Bashkir -
Tıva -
Khakas -
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) -
Khalaj -
Chuvash -

Examples

Translations

German:
Wiedehopf
Russian:
удод
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
şanapipik quş
Turkish (Türkiye):
ibik kuşu, ibibik
  • Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 9
    üpgük the earliest of several early onomatopoeic names for this bird; the others are assembled below; some s.i.s.m.l., occasionally with the extended meaning in Çağ. Türkü viii ff. kara: üpgü:k ‘the black hoopoe’ IrkB 21: Uyğ. viii ff. Civ. üpüp kuşnuŋ sügükin ‘the bones of a hoopoe’ TT VII 23, 5: Xak. xi üpüp al-hudhud ‘hoopoe’; dialect form of (luğa fi) üpgük Kaş. I 78; Çiğil xi üpgük al-hudhud Kaş. I 110: xiv Muh. hudhud übü:k (not vocalized) Mel. 73, 4 (v.l. ibi:k); Rif. 176: Çağ. xv ff. übük ‘the crest’ (tâc) on the heads of such birds as the cock and the hoopoe (hudhud), and metaph. ‘hoopoe’; the latter is also called püpük and püpüş and, in Rûmi, ibik; übük kuşı ‘hoopoe’ in Pe. şânasar San. 58v. 2: Kip. xv hudhud übük Tuh. 37b. 10: Osm. xv ff. ibik/ibük c.i.a.p. TTS II 511; III 351; IV 405.