چاپاق بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Analyzable as a compound of چاپاق (çapak, “sleep, rheum, gound”) +‎ بالق (balık, “fish”); however the first part actually derives from Proto-Turkic *čapak (“carp bream”), like Azerbaijani çapaq, Turkmen çapak and Chuvash ҫупах (śup̬ah).

Noun

چاپاق بالغی • (çapak balığı)

1. carp bream (Abramis brama)

Descendants

• Turkish: çapak

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاپاق بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 455
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاپاق بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 698