قورت سیڭكی

Ottoman Turkish

قورت سیڭكی

Etymology

From قورت (kurt, “worm; wolf”) + سیڭك (siñek, “fly”).

Noun

قورت سیڭكی • (kurt siñeği)

blow fly, bottlefly, any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae

Descendants

Turkish: kurt sineği

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورت سیڭكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104

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