آلا بالق

Ottoman Turkish

آلا بالق

Etymology

From آلا (ala, “spotted, speckled”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

آلا بالق • (ala balık)

1. trout, any of several fish in the family Salmonidae, closely related to salmon

Descendants

• Turkish: alabalık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “alabalık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 186
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلا بالق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 31
• Redhouse, J. W. (1884) “trout”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 765
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلا بالق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 179