قولاغه قاچان
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From قولاغه (kulağa), dative form of قولاق (kulak, “ear”), + قاچان (kaçan, “fleeing, escaping”).
Noun
[edit]- earwig, any of various insects of the order Dermaptera, having characteristic forceps-like pincers on their abdomen
- Synonym: قولاق بتی (kulak biti)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kulağakaçan
Further reading
[edit]- 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