آت بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آت (at, “horse”) +‎ بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

آت بالغی • (at balığı)

  1. hippopotamus, any large, semi-aquatic mammal of the species Hippopotamus amphibius
    Synonyms: صو آیغری (su ayğırı), هیپوپوتام (hipopotam)

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آت بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 4
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hippopotamus”, 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, Vienna, column 698
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آت بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 34
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آت بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 17
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