قورباغه
Ottoman Turkish edit
Noun edit
قورباغه • (kurbağa)
- Alternative spelling of قوربغه (kurbağa, “frog”)
Further reading edit
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورباغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 978
Persian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Turkic. Compare Turkish kurbağa (“frog”), Azerbaijani qurbağa (“frog”), Uzbek qurbaqa (“frog”).
Largely displaced Iranian terms for "frog" such as وک (vak), inherited from Middle Persian, and غوک (ğuk) and چغز (čağz), both from Sogdian.
Pronunciation edit
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [quːɹ.bɒː.ɢé]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Iranian reading? | ğurbâğe |
Noun edit
| Dari | بقه, کورباقه |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | قورباغه |
| Tajik | қурбоқа |
قورباغه • (qurbâğe) (plural قورباغهها (qurbâğe-hâ))
Derived terms edit
- بچه قورباغه (bačče-ye qurbâğe, “tadpole”)