ییلان بالغی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ییلان (yılan, “snake”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).
Noun
[edit]- eel, any fish of the order Anguilliformes
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: yılan balığı
Further reading
[edit]- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Anguilla”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[1], Vienna, column 62
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ییلان بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 5599
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلان بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2229