Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Compound of بالق (balık, fish) +‎ آغ (, net).

Noun edit

بالق آغی (balık ağı)

  1. fishing net

Further reading edit

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rete”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[1], Vienna, column 1477
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بالق آغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, columns 687–688
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالق آغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 146