𐰴𐰆𐱁

kuş

Meaning:
bird
Alternative spellings:
𐰴𐰆𐰽

Word family

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.
Language Cognate
Turkmen guş
Turkish (Azerbaijan) quş
Turkish (Türkiye) kuş
Salar guş
Gagauz kuş
Crimean quş
Uyghur quş
Uzbek quş
Kazakh qus
Nogai kus
Siberian Tatar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kyrgyz kuş
Altai kuş
Alan No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kumyk No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Tatar qoş
Bashkir qoş
Tıva kuş
Khakas xus
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) kus
Khalaj quş
Chuvash No cognate has been entered for this language yet.

Examples

Translations

German:
der Vogel
Kazakh:
qus
Kyrgyz:
kuş
Russian:
птица
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
quş
Turkish (Türkiye):
kuş
Turkmen:
guş
Uzbek:
quş

  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 670
    kuş ‘bird’; often used as a sort of appendage to specific names of birds. C.i.a.p.a.l. L.-w. in Pe., etc., Doerfer III 1561. Türkü viii ff. kuş oğlı: either generically ‘birds’ or specifically ‘young birds’ IrkB 15; ögüz kuşı: ‘river birds’ do. 43; several occurrences as appendage, e.g. toğan kuş do. 4, 44 etc.: Uyğ. viii ff. Man.-A takığu kuş ‘domestic fowl’ M I 36, 2 etc.: Bud. uçuğma kuş kuzğun ‘flying birds and ravens’ U III 32, 4; a.o.o.: Civ. kök kalıkta uçar kuş ‘birds flying in the sky’ TT I 23; a.o.o.: Xak. xi kuş ‘bird’ (al-ṭayr) a generic term; then some of them have specific names (yufarraq); ‘the white falcon’ (al-bāzī) is called ürüŋ kuş; kara: kuş ‘eagle’ (al-‘uqāb); tevey kuş ‘ostrich’ (al-na‘ām); (PU) yo:n kuş ‘peacock’ (al-ṭā’ūs); (VU) i:l kuş ‘vulture’ (al-raxama); kara: kuş al-muştarī mina’l-nucūm ‘the planet Jupiter’; one says kara: kuş tuğdı: ‘Jupiter has risen’ (ṭala‘a), it rises at dawn (‘inda’l-ṣubḥ) in their country; (Oğuz phr. follows); kız kuş ‘a bird like the finch (abū barāqiş) in colour’ Kaş. I 331; many o.o.: KB ular kuş ‘the partridge’ 75: xiii(?) At. (fortune) kuş teg uçar ‘flies away like a bird’ 224; Tef. kuş ‘bird’ 219: xiv Muh. al-ṭayr ku:ş Mel. 72, 13; Rif. 175: Çağ. xv ff. kuş parvāna ‘moth’ Vel. 340 (quotn.; as pointed out in San., a mistranslation); kuş (‘with -u-’) ṭuyūr ‘bird(s)’ San. 288r. 24 (quotns.; correction of Vel.): Oğuz xi although the following entry is embedded among names of birds it seems to belong to ko:ş; kara: koş aṭrāf axfāfi’l-ibil ‘the sides of camels’ feet’ Kaş. I 331: Kom. xiv ‘bird’ kuş; ‘eagle’ kara kuş CCG; Gr.: Kıp. xiii al-ṭayr muṭlaqa(n) ‘bird’ in general ku:ş . . . al-‘uqāb kara: kuş . . . al-qubaysa ‘little screech owl’ ba:y kuş (and many other names without kuş appended) Hou. 9, 19 ff.: xiv kuş al-ṭayr; kuş kuyruğı: (‘bird’s tail’) al-dummal ‘ulcer’ İd. 72; Bul. 11, 9; 10, 2; al-macarra ‘the Milky Way’ kuş yolı: do. 2, 13: xv (muṭlaqu’l-) ṭayr ku:ş Kav. 39, 8; 62, 12; Tuh. 23b. 6; al-‘uqāb kara: kuş; al-na‘ām dewe: kuş Kav. 62, 13-14.