جنت قوشی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From جنت (cennet, “paradise”) + قوش (kuş, “bird”).

Noun

جنت قوشى • (cennet kuşu)

bird of paradise, any of various passerine birds of the family Paradisaeidae

Descendants

Turkish: cennet kuşu

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cennet kuşu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 777
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جنت قوشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 447
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جنت قوشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 681

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