قلقان بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قلقان (kalkan, “shield”) +‎ بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

قلقان بالغی • (kalkan balığı)

  1. turbot (Scophthalmus maximus, earlier Psetta maxima).

Descendants
  • Turkish: kalkan balığı
  • → Armenian: խալխան (xalxan), խալխան պալըխի (xalxan paləxi)
  • → Bulgarian: калка́н (kalkán)
  • → Greek: καλκάνι (kalkáni)
  • → Macedonian: калкан (kalkan)
  • → Romanian: calcán
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ка̀лка̄н
    Latin script: kàlkān

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلقان بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 934
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rhombus”, 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 1484
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلقان بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3750
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلقان بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1423
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