قورباغه

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

قورباغه • (kurbağa)

1. Alternative spelling of قوربغه (kurbağa, “frog”)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورباغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 978

Persian

قورباغه

Alternative forms

• (Archaic, Classical Persian) قرباقه (qurbaqa), قرباغه (qurbāğa), قربغه (qurbağa)
• قورباقه (qurbaqe)

Etymology

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [quːɹ.bɒː.ɢé]

Readings
Iranian reading?	ğurbâğe

Noun

Dari	بقه
Iranian Persian	قورباغه
Tajik	қурбоқа

قورباغه • (qurbâğe) (plural قورباغه‌ها (qurbâğe-hâ))

1. frog

Derived terms

• بچه قورباغه (bačče-ye qurbâğe, “tadpole”)