snipe (any bird of the genus Gallinago, belonging to the family Scolopacidae) · snipe, woodcock (birds in the related genera Scolopax, Coenocorypha and Lymnocryptes, belonging to the family Scolopacidae) · Scolopacidae (the family of sandpipers and snipes)
çekim: çoğul kurpat · tamlayan kurpan
köken: Onomatopoeic. Originally the term was not as precise and was used of different species. May also be related to kurmitsa, which could be from the same root.
woodcock (several bird species of the genus Scolopax, especially Scolopax rusticola)
çekim: çoğul slokas · tamlayan slokas
köken: From Proto-Baltic *slankā-, formed by vowel gradation from Proto-Indo-European *slenk- “to cut, to twist, to wind, to meander; to crawl, to creep”. The original meaning was probably “crawler, creeper”, because of this bird's terrestrial habits and low flight. Cognates include Lithuanian slánka, slankà, slãnkė, Old Prussian slanke (“large woodcock”), Russian слу́ка (slúka), Ukrainian слу́ква…
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