قار طوپی

Ottoman Turkish

قار طوپی

Etymology

From قار (kar, “snow”) + طوپ (top, “ball”).

Noun

قار طوپى • (kar topu)

snowball, a ball of snow usually thrown for amusement in a snowball fight
viburnum, guelder rose, any deciduous shrub of the species Viburnum opulus

Descendants

Turkish: kartopu

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kartopu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2451
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قار طوپی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 923
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قار طوپی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1411

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