قره سینك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قره (kara, “black”) + سینك (sinek, “fly”)

Noun

قره سینك • (kara sinek)

1. house fly

Descendants

• Turkish: kara sinek, karasinek

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره سینك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104