قولاغه قاچان

Ottoman Turkish

قولاغه قاچان

Etymology

From قولاغه (kulağa), dative form of قولاق (kulak, “ear”), + قاچان (kaçan, “fleeing, escaping”).

Noun

قولاغه قاچان • (kulağa kaçan)

1. earwig, any of various insects of the order Dermaptera, having characteristic forceps-like pincers on their abdomen

   Synonym: قولاق بتی (kulak biti)

Descendants

• Turkish: kulağakaçan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kulağakaçan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2825
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولاغه قاچان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 987
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولاغه قاچان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1493