قره باتاق

Ottoman Turkish

قره باتاق

Etymology

From قره (kara, “black”) + باتاق (batak, “swamp, marsh”).

Noun

قره باتاق • (kara batak)

  1. cormorant, any of various seabirds in the family Phalacrocoracidae

Descendants

  • Turkish: karabatak
  • → Albanian: karabatak
  • → Armenian: խարապաթախ (xarapatʻax)
  • → Bulgarian: кара́бата́к (karábaták)
  • → Greek: καραμπατάκι (karampatáki)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: kȁrabatak/ка̏рабатак

Further reading

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