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papağan

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پاپاغان (papağan), from Arabic بَبَغَاء (babaḡāʔ), a word of imitative origin. Compare English popinjay (archaic), Spanish papagayo, Italian pappagallo, Greek παπαγάλος (papagálos), etc. from the same Arabic root.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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