قلقان بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قلقان (kalkan, “shield”) +‎ بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

قلقان بالغی • (kalkan balığı)

1. turbot (Scophthalmus maximus, earlier Psetta maxima).

Descendants

• Turkish: kalkan balığı
• → Armenian: խալխան (xalxan), խալխան պալըխի (xalxan paləxi)
• → Bulgarian: калка́н (kalkán)
• → Greek: καλκάνι (kalkáni)
• → Macedonian: калкан (kalkan)
• → Romanian: calcán
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̀лка̄н

  Latin script: kàlkān

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلقان بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 934
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rhombus”, 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 1484
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلقان بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3750
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلقان بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1423