قورباغه
Ottoman Turkish
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورباغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 978
Persian
قورباغه
Alternative forms
- کوربقه (kōrbaqa) (Dari)
Etymology
Borrowed from Turkic. Compare Turkish kurbağa (“frog”), Azerbaijani qurbağa (“frog”), Uzbek qurbaqa (“frog”).
Largely displaced Iranian terms for "frog" such as وک (vak), inherited from Middle Persian, and غوک (ğuk) and چغز (čağz), both from Sogdian.
Noun
| Dari | بقه, کورباقه |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | قورباغه |
| Tajik | қурбоқа |
قورباغه • (qurbâğe) (plural قورباغهها (qurbâğe-hâ))
Derived terms
- بچه قورباغه (bačče-ye qurbâğe, “tadpole”)
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