قایغنه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • قایغانا, قایغانه

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خایه گینه (xâya gina, “a kind of scrambled egg”).

Noun

قایغنه • (kaygana)

  1. omelette
  2. scrambled eggs

Descendants

  • Turkish: kaygana
  • → Bulgarian: кайгана (kajgana)
  • → Greek: καγιανάς (kagianás)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ка̏јгана
    Latin script: kȁjgana

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