قره سیكك

Ottoman Turkish

قره سیڭك

Etymology

From قره (kara, “black”) + سیڭك (siñek, “fly”).

Noun

قره سیڭك • (kara siñek)

1. housefly, any fly of the species Musca domestica

Descendants

• Turkish: karasinek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karasinek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2425
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره سیكك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104