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.