قورباغه

قورباغه • (kurbağa)

1. alternative spelling of قوربغه (kurbağa, “frog”)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورباغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 978

• (Archaic, Classical Persian) قرباقه (qurbaqa), قرباغه (qurbāġa), قربغه (qurbaġa)
• قورباقه (qurbaqe)
• قربک (qorbak) (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh)

Borrowed from Turkic. Compare Turkish kurbağa (“frog”), Azerbaijani qurbağa (“frog”), Uzbek qurbaqa (“frog”).

Largely displaced Iranian terms for "frog" such as وک (vak), inherited from Middle Persian, and غوک (ġuk) and چغز (čaġz), both from Sogdian.

قورباغه • (qurbâġe) (plural قورباغه‌ها (qurbâġe-hâ))

1. frog