بوجرغات

Ottoman Turkish

بوجرغات

Alternative forms

• بوجرغاد (bocurgad)

Etymology

Akin to Greek μποζαργάτης (bozargátis), μποτζαργάτης (botzargátis), whose second part is αργάτης (argátis), εργάτης (ergátis). The meaning and origin of the first part is obscure: Nişanyan compares it to Italian poggia, from which Ottoman Turkish پوجه (poca, “leeward direction”).

Noun

بوجرغات • (bocurgat, bucurgat)

1. windlass, capstan, crab, any of various forms of winch in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder
2. jack, a mechanical tool used to raise and support a heavy object, especially a motor vehicle

Descendants

• Turkish: bocurgat, bucurgat

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bocurgat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 639
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 508
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوجرغاد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 280
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bucurgat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوجرغات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 392