قره باتاق

Ottoman Turkish

قره باتاق

Etymology

From قره (kara, “black”) + باتاق (batak, “swamp, marsh”).

Noun

قره باتاق • (kara batak)

1. cormorant, any of various seabirds in the family Phalacrocoracidae

Descendants

• Turkish: karabatak
• → Albanian: karabatak
• → Armenian: խարապաթախ (xarapatʻax)
• → Bulgarian: кара́бата́к (karábaták)
• → Greek: καραμπατάκι (karampatáki)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kȁrabatak／ка̏рабатак

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karabatak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2413
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره باتاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 231
• Redhouse, J. W. (1884) “cormorant”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 180
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره باتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 315