قره سیڭك
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From قره (kara, “black”) + سیڭك (siñek, “fly”).
Noun edit
- housefly, any fly of the species Musca domestica
Descendants edit
- Turkish: karasinek
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karasinek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2425
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره سیڭك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104