kartopu
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قار طوپی (ḳar topu, “snowball; viburnum”), equivalent to kar (“snow”) + top (“ball”) + -u (possessive suffix).
Related terms
- kar topu
Further reading
- “kartopu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kartopu¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2393
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