ككلیك بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

ككلیك بالغی

Etymology

From ككلیك (keklik, “partridge”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

ككلیك بالغی • (keklik balığı)

1. Mediterranean rainbow wrasse, a small, colourful fish of the species Coris julis

Descendants

• Turkish: keklik balığı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “keklik balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2526
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ككلیك بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1558