ككلیك بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

ككلیك بالغی

Etymology

From ككلیك (keklik, “partridge”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

ككلیك بالغی • (keklik balığı)

Mediterranean rainbow wrasse, a small, colourful fish of the species Coris julis

Descendants

Turkish: keklik balığı

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “keklik balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2526
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ككلیك بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1558

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