Crimean Tatar

Noun

börü

1. wolf

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic böri, from Proto-Turkic *bȫrü, possibly from Proto-Altaic *bī́re ‎(“a kind of predator”). According to Sergei Starostin the hypothesis of the word being borrowed from an East Iranian source runs into difficulties, basically because of the lack of early attested forms with -k (only in Tuva dialects and the hypothetical Bulgar source of Russ. бирюк (cf. Аникин 128-129)^[1]), and vice versa affirms Vasily I. Abaevs elaboration that the East Iranian form itself is most likely borrowed from a Turkic source.^[2] The word is not found in any other Indo-European language.^[3] Perhaps loaned into Indo-European languages as barbar ("foreign, barbarous, roughly, cruelly") via Akkadian "barbaru" ("wolf or leopard"), based on a duplication of Old Turkic börü, buri, bürü (in some Turkic dialects babir means 'leopard').^[4]

Noun

börü ‎(definite accusative börüyü, plural börülar)

1. wolf

Synonyms

• kurt

References

1. ↑ Аникин А. Е. [A. Ye. Anikin]. Этимологический словарь русских диалектов Сибири. Заимствования из уральских, алтайских и палеоазиатских языков [An Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Dialects of Siberia. Borrowings from Uralic, Altaic and Paleoasiatic Languages]. Москва-Новосибирск [Moscow, Novosibirsk].
2. ↑ V. I. Abaev: Историкоэтимологический словарь осетинского языка, т. 1 // A Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language, vv. 1. Moscow-Leningrad. 1958-1995. p.263. In: “*bȫrü.” in Sergei Starostin, Vladimir Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003), Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.
3. ↑ Karatay, İran İle Turan, p.186
4. ↑ Elşad Allili, Osman Çataloluk: "Similarities between Turkish & Akkadian based on rules of Inflective and Agglutinative languages." Advances in Language and Literary Studies. ISSN: 2203-4714. Vol. 5 No. 4; August 2014. Doi:10.7575/aiac.alls.v.5n.4p.113.