1böri Wolf || kurtböri mayakı Wolfskot || kurt dışkısıböri oglı Wolfjunges || kurt yavrusuböri öti Wolfsgalle || kurt safrasıböriniŋ süŋöki Knochen eines Wolfs || kurdun kemiğiböriniŋ tili Zunge eines Wolfs || kurdun dili
*bīre a k. of predator: Tung. *birin; Mong. *ber-; Turk. *bȫrü.PTung. *birin female of a predator (самка хищника (медведя, тигра)): Evk. birin; Evn. bịran; Neg. bịjịn; Man. birin ~ barin.◊ ТМС 1, 84-85.PMong. *ber- young of wolf (волчонок): MMong. borte čino (SH); WMong. beltereg (L 98: belterge); berte činua, börtü (L 128); Kh. beltreg; Bur. belterge; Kalm. beltərəg.◊ KW 42. Mong. *beltereg is a regular metathesis < *berteleg. Mong. börtü (berte) činua is translated as ‘multicolored wolf (name of the legendary ancestor of Chinggis Khan)’ and börtü is glossed in L 128 as ‘mottled, speckled, grey’ - but in fact it is basically used with činua and is probably the original deriving stem of beltereg. -büri in MMong. ǯö'e-büri, WMong. čögebüri ‘jackal’ may be borrowed < Turk. (see Щербак 1997, 163).PTurk. *bȫrü wolf (волк): OTurk. böri (Orkh., Yen., OUygh.); Karakh. böri (MK,KB); Tur. börü (dial.); Turkm. bȫrü; Sal. püŕe (ССЯ); Khal. bīeri; MTurk. böri (Sangl., Abush.); Uzb. bọri; Uygh. böri; Krm. börü; Tat. büre; Bashk. büre; Kirgh. börü; Kaz. böri; KBalk. börü; KKalp. böri; Kum. börü; Nogh. böri; SUygh. böji, peri; Khak. pǖr; Shr. pörü (R); Oyr. börü; Tv. börü, dial. (Todzh.) börük; Chuv. pirə; Yak. börö; Dolg. börö.◊ EDT 356, VEWT 84, TMN 2, 333, ЭСТЯ 2, 219-221, Лексика 160, Stachowski 63.The hypothesis of the word being borrowed from an East Iranian source runs into difficulties, basically because of the lack of early attested forms with -k (only in Tuva dialects and the hypothetical Bulgar source of Russ. бирюк (cf. Аникин 128-129)). See also Abaev 1, 263 (isn't the East Iranian form itself < Turkic?)‖ A Western isogloss. KW 42, Лексика 160. In Turk. one has to suppose a secondary assimilation < *bērü.
böri: ‘wolf’. C.i.a.p.a.l. except in SW Az., Osm. where ‘wolf’ is kurt; in Tkm. bö:ri (sic) is known, but is not the standard word. See Doerfer II 784. Türkü VIII (the army of my father the xağan) böri: teg ermiş ‘was like a wolf’ (and his enemies like sheep) I E 12, II E 11: VIII ff. (a rich man's sheep) böri:ke: soku:şmi:ş ‘encountered a wolf’ IrkB 27: Uyğ. VIII ff. Man.-A böri oğlı ‘a wolf cub’ M I 8, 6; a.o. M III 11, 9 (i) (öpün-): Man. (a lamb which) börike kedilip ‘is dressed (i.e. reborn) as a wolf’ M I 18, 5; Er Böri Proper Name TT IX 114: Bud. (evil creatures such as) bars irbiş böri ‘leopards, panthers, and wolves’ TT VI 116: Civ. böri as an animal whose gall, bones, tongue, etc. are used in medicine is common in H I: O. Kır. IX ff. yeti: böri: ölürdim ‘I killed seven wolves’ Mal. 11, 10; Çoçuk Böri: Saŋu:n Proper Name do. 12, 1: Xak. XI böri: al-di'b ‘wolf’ Kaş. III 220 (prov.); ten o.o. KB (he organized the realm, enriched the people and) böri koy bile suvladı ol ödün ‘the wolf then drank water with the lamb’ 449; a.o. 1040: Çağ. XV ff. böri kurt, gurg ma'nāsına ‘wolf’ Vel. 148 (quotn.); böri gurg, in Ar. di'b San. 133r. 22 (quotn.): Xwar. XIII(?) erkek böri ‘a male wolf’ Oğ. 141; a.o.o.: XIV böri Qutb 36, MN 76; Nahc. 112, 10; 343, 7 etc.; börü Qutb 37: Kom. XIV ‘wolf’ börü CCI; böri CCG; Gr.: Kip. XIII al-di'b börü: (Tkm. kurt) Hou. 11, 3: XIV börü al-di'b Id. 30; a.o. do. 70 (kurt); al-di'b börü: Bul. 10, 6: XV ditto bö:ri: Kav. 62, 7; Tuh. 16a. 12.