bürgä

Meaning:
flea

In Karakhanid Old Turkic, bürgä also occurs in bürgä kişi for a light-hearted, fickle person.

In modern languages

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Language Cognate
Turkmen büre
Turkish (Azerbaijan) birə
Turkish (Türkiye) pire
Salar birğe
Gagauz pirä
Crimean The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Uyghur bürgä
Uzbek burga
Kazakh bürge
Nogai The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Siberian Tatar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kyrgyz bürgö
Altai The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Alan The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kumyk The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Tatar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Bashkir The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Tıva The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Khakas The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Khalaj The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Chuvash The cognate has disappeared from this language.

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Translations

German:
Floh
Russian:
блоха
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
birə
Turkish (Türkiye):
pire

  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 362b
    bürge: an old word ending in -ge:; ‘flea’. An early (xiv) l.-w. in Mong. (see Haenisch, Sino-mongolische Glossare I (ADAW, 1957), p. 13, No. 179); survives as bürge and the like in SE Türki; NC Kir., Kzx.; SC Uzb.; NW Kk. and in SW Osm. pire, Tkm. büre. There is an irregular form NW Kaz. borça; Krım. Kumyk bürçe; Nog. bürşe, and see below, perhaps an abbreviated Dim. f. Xak. xi bürge: al-barğūt ‘flea’; and a light-hearted fickle (al-tayyāş) man is called bürge: kişi: Kaş. I 427: xiv Muh. al-barğūt bürge: (-g- marked) Mel. 74, 6; Rif. 177: Çağ. xv ff. bürge (‘with -g-’) kayk ‘flea’, in Ar. barğūt San. 132v. 28: Kip. xiii al-barğūt bürçe:; Tkm. büre: Hou. 12, 2: xiv bürçe: ditto Id. 30; ditto büre/bürçe: Bid. 11, 6: Osm. xiv to xvii büre ‘flea’; c.i.a.p. TTS I 117; II 187; III 133; IV 140.
  • M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen p. 92a
    AH. MA. bürčä ‘Floh’, kmk. blk. krč. bürče id., krm. birčä, bürče, nog. bürše, (osm. biršik), kzk. büršö, böršö, kaz. borča, bšk. börsä, čuv. părśa; mtü. bürgä ‘Floh’ (Br. börkä), čag. otü. bürge, tar. bügä, özb. burga, trkm. büre, osm. pirä, az. birä, kzk. kklp. bürge, kzk. (Radl. börgö), kkir. bürgö, MA. bürä ~ mo. (KWb. 71) bürge ‘Floh’