آت بالغی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- աթ պալըղը (at balığı) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
[edit]From آت (at, “horse”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).
Noun
[edit]- hippopotamus, any large, semi-aquatic mammal of the species Hippopotamus amphibius
Further reading
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آت بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 4
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hippopotamus”, 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[2], Vienna, column 698
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آت بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 34
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آت بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 17