قوم بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

قوم بالغی

Etymology

From قوم (kum, “sand”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

قوم بالغی • (kum balığı)

skink, any lizard with small or reduced limbs in the family Scincidae
Synonym: سقنقور (sakankur)

Descendants

Turkish: kum balığı

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kum balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2833
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوم بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 990
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوم بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1498

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