كومش بالغی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From كومش (gümüş, “silver”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).
Noun
- sand smelt, any small fish in the genus Atherina
- Synonym: آترینه (aterina)
Descendants
- Turkish: gümüş balığı
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gümüş balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1801
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كومش بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1017
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كومش بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1533