بالنه

Ottoman Turkish

بالنه

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian balena.

Noun

بالنه • (balena)

1. whale, any large cetacean excluding dolphins and porpoises

   Synonym: آطه بالغی (ada balığı)

Descendants

• Turkish: balina
• → Azerbaijani: balina
• → Armenian: պալէնա (palēna)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “balina”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 453
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 249
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “balina”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335