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قلج بالغی

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From قلج (kılıc, sword) +‎ بالق (balık, fish).

Noun

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قلج بالغی (kılıc balığı)

  1. swordfish (Xiphias gladius)

Descendants

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  • Turkish: kılıç balığı
  • Armenian: խըլըճ պալըխի (xələč paləxi)

Further reading

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلج بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 971
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Xiphias”, 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 1803
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلج بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, columns 3745–3746
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلج بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1470