بالق قولاغی

Ottoman Turkish

بالق قولاغی

Etymology

From بالق (balık, “fish”) + قولاق (kulak, “ear”).

Noun

بالق قولاغی • (balık kulağı)

1. mussel shell, the shell of several groups of bivalve shellfish

Descendants

• Turkish: balık kulağı

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “بالق قولاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 572
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “balık kulağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 452
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالق قولاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335