آیی بالغی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From آیی (ayı, “bear”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).
Noun
- seal, especially the common seal (Phoca vitulina)
Descendants
- Turkish: ayı balığı
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ayı balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 382
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آیی بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 44
- Redhouse, J. W. (1884) “seal”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 668
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آیی بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 311