چوقه بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

چوقه بالغی

Etymology

Morphologically from چوقه (çoka, çuka, “baize; broadcloth; drape”) + بالق (balık, “fish”), but the first element probably derives from the same root of Armenian չուքա (čʻukʻa), Bulgarian чига (čiga), Chuvash ҫӗкӗ (śĕk̬ĕ), Tatar чөгә (çögä) and Udmurt чуке (ćuke).

Noun

چوقه بالغی • (çoka balığı, çuka balığı)

1. sterlet, any smaller, common Eurasian sturgeon, of the species Acipenser ruthenus

Descendants

• Turkish: çuka, çuka balığı

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چوقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 611
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çuka2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1056
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوقه بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 480