قره قوربغه

Ottoman Turkish

قره قوربغه

Etymology

From قره (kara, “black”) + قوربغه (kurbağa, “frog”).

Noun

قره قوربغه • (kara kurbağa)

1. toad, any kind of frog with shorter hindlegs and wartier skin

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره قوربغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 978
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Bufo”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 128
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره قوربغه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484