قرق آیاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • գըրգ այագ (kırk ayak), գըրգայագ (kırkayak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From قرق (kırk, “forty; a lot”) + آیاق (ayak, “foot”).

Noun

قرق آیاق • (kırk ayak)

  1. centipede, any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total
    Synonym: صدپا (sedpâ)
  2. millipede, any arthropod of class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments

Descendants

  • Turkish: kırkayak
  • → Romanian: cârcăiac

Further reading

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