چوقه بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

چیقه بالغی (çıka balığı) — in Evliya Çelebi

Etymology

Morphologically from چوقه (çoka, çuka, “baize; broadcloth; drape”) + بالق (balık, “fish”), but in reality the first element is a wanderword of uncertain ultimate origin also reflected in Azerbaijani çökə, Tatar чөгә (çögä), Tarsk Siberian Tatar чүкә (çükä), Chuvash ҫӗкӗ (śĕk̬ĕ), Eastern Mari сӱгӧ (sügö), Udmurt чуке (ćuke), Armenian չուքա (čʻukʻa), Bulgarian чи́га (číga), Serbo-Croatian čȉga / чи̏га, Romanian cegă, and with an unexplained additional first syllable in Hungarian kecsege, Serbo-Croatian kèčiga / кѐчига, Slovene kečíga, Polish czeczuga, Ukrainian чечу́га (čečúha), кече́га (kečéha), Russian чечу́га (čečúga), Romanian căciugă, Greek κέτσιγα (kétsiga), all referring to the sterlet.

It has been suggested that the Ottoman Turkish term is borrowed from a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *ščùka (“pike (fish)”), whence Hungarian csuka.^[1]^[2] In this respect note that Armenian չուքա (čʻukʻa, “sterlet”) has also been identified with the pike.

Noun

چوقه بالغی • (çoka balığı, çuka balığı)

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

Descendants

Turkish: çuka balığı, çuka, çiga, çığa

References

^ Miklosich, Franz (1889) Die slavischen, magyarischen und rumunischen Elemente im türkischen Sprachschatze (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Classe; 118) (in German), Vienna, page 6
^ Tietze, Andreas (2002) “çuka I”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 538a

Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چوقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 611
Beke, Ödön (1938) “Skr. kečiga”, in Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie‎^[1] (in German), volume 15, number 1/2, pages 118–119
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^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 480
Pallas, Peter Simon (1811) “Acipenser pygmaeus”, in Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica (in Latin), volume III, St. Petersburg: Academy Press, § 85, pages 102–103

[1] Miklosich, Franz (1889) Die slavischen, magyarischen und rumunischen Elemente im türkischen Sprachschatze (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Classe; 118) (in German), Vienna, page 6

[2] Tietze, Andreas (2002) “çuka I”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 538a

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