آق بالق

Ottoman Turkish

آق بالق

Etymology

From آق (white, “spotted, speckled”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

آق بالق • (ak balık)

1. roach, any of various fish in the genus Rutilus

Descendants

• Turkish: akbalık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “akbalık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 166
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آق بالق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 27
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آق بالق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 161