قوربغه

Ottoman Turkish

قوربغه

Alternative forms

• قورباغه (kurbağa), قوربغا (kurbağa)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïrbāka, a development of *b(i)āka (“frog”); cognate with Azerbaijani qurbağa, Kazakh құрбақа (qūrbaqa), Turkmen gurbaga and Uzbek qurbaqa.

Noun

قوربغه • (kurbağa)

1. frog, any of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura

   Synonyms: ضفدع (dafdaʿ), غوك (guk)

Derived terms

• آغاج قوربغه‌سی (ağac kurbağası, “tree frog”)
• قره قوربغه (kara kurbağa, “toad”)
• قوربغه اوتی (kurbağa otu, “water crowfoot”)
• قوربغه طاشی (kurbağa taşı, “toadstone”)
• قوربغه‌جق (kurbağacık, “ranula”)
• قویروقلو قوربغه (kuyruklu kurbağa, “tadpole”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kurbağa
• → Armenian: խուռպաղի (xuṙpaġi), խուռպաղա (xuṙpaġa)
• → Kazakh: құрбақа (qūrbaqa)
• → Persian: قورباغه (qurbâğe)
• → Tajik: қурбоққа (qurboqqa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurbağa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2843
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوربغه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 373a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورباغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 978
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rana”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1434
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوربغه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3786
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kurbağa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوربغه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484