بورغو

Ottoman Turkish

بورغو

Alternative forms

• بورغی (burgu)
• պուրկու (burgu), պուրղու (burğu), պուրղը (burğı) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *burgu (“borer, gimlet, auger”), from the same root of بورمق (burmak, “to twist or screw”). Cognate with Azerbaijani burğu, Bashkir бырау (bıraw), Chagatai بورغو (burğu), Chuvash пӑра (păra), Kazakh бұрғы (būrğy) and Turkmen buraw.

Noun

بورغو • (burgu)

1. (in general) borer, drill, any instrument used for drilling

   Synonyms: برمه (berme), پرماه (permah), مثقب (miskab)

2. gimlet, a small screw-tipped tool for boring holes
3. auger, a carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those made by a gimlet
4. corkscrew, a device for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork

   Synonym: تیربوشون (tirbuşon)

Derived terms

• بورغوجی (burgucu, “maker or seller of borers”)
• بورغولامق (burgulamak, “to bore, drill”)
• بورغولو (burgulu, “furished with a borer”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: burgu
• → Albanian: burgji
• → Arabic: بُرْغِيّ (burḡiyy)
  • → Hebrew: בֹּרֶג (bṓrēg)
  • Kurdish:

    → Northern Kurdish: burxî, birxî

    → Central Kurdish: بورغی (burẍî), برغی (birẍî)

• → Armenian: պուրղու (purġu), պուռղու (puṙġu), բուռկուն (buṙkun)
• → Bulgarian: бурги́я (burgíja)
• → Georgian: ბურღი (burɣi)
• → Laz: ბურგი (burgi), ბურღი (burği)
• → Romanian: burghiu
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бу̀ргија

  Latin script: bùrgija

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burgu2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 702
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بورغو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 130a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورغو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 283
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Terebra”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1662
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بورغو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 914
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “burgu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورغو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395