قره سیڭك

Ottoman Turkish

قره سیڭك

Etymology

From قره (kara, “black”) + سیڭك (siñek, “fly”).

Noun

قره سیڭك • (kara siñek)

housefly, any fly of the species Musca domestica

Descendants

Turkish: karasinek

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karasinek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2425
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره سیڭك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104

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