ییلان بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ییلان (yılan, “snake”) +‎ بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

ییلان بالغی • (yılan balığı)

  1. eel, any fish of the order Anguilliformes

Descendants
  • Turkish: yılan balığı

Further reading
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Anguilla”, 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 62
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ییلان بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5599
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلان بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2229
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