مرجان بالغی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From مرجان (mercan, “coral”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).
Noun
- red gurnard, any benthic, ray-finned fish of the species Chelidonichthys cuculus
Descendants
- Turkish: mercan balığı
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mercan balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3147
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مرجان بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1805