آطه بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

آطه بالغی

Etymology

From آطه (ada, “island”) +‎ بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

آطه بالغی • (ada balığı)

1. whale, any large cetacean excluding dolphins and porpoises

   Synonym: بالنه (balina)

Descendants

• Turkish: ada balığı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ada balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 107
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ادا بالغی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 16a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Balæna”, 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 113
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ادا بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 107
• Redhouse, J. W. (1884) “whale”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 813