قفتان بوجكی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Compound of قفتان (kaftan, “kaftan, robe”) + بوجك (böcek, “bug”).
Noun edit
- ladybird, any beetle of the family Coccinellidae
Further reading edit
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قفتان بوجكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 966
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قفتان بوجكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1465