قلج بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قلج (kılıc, “sword”) +‎ بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

قلج بالغی • (kılıc balığı)

  1. swordfish (Xiphias gladius)

Descendants
  • Turkish: kılıç balığı
  • → Armenian: խըլըճ պալըխի (xələč paləxi)

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلج بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 971
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Xiphias”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1803
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلج بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 3745–3746
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلج بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1470
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