بالقخانه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

A compound of بالق (balık, “fish”) +‎ خانه (hâne, “place”).

Noun

بالقخانه • (balıkhane)

1. fish farm or fishpond, a place dedicated to the raising of fish
2. (historical) the custom house for dues on fish brought to market in Istanbul

Descendants

• Turkish: balıkhane
• → Armenian: պալըխանա (paləxana)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “balıkhane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 452
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالقخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 249
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Piscina”, 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 1303
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالقخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335