قورت سیڭكی

Ottoman Turkish

قورت سیڭكی

Etymology

From قورت (kurt, “worm; wolf”) + سیڭك (siñek, “fly”).

Noun

قورت سیڭكی • (kurt siñeği)

1. blow fly, bottlefly, any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae

Descendants

• Turkish: kurt sineği

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورت سیڭكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104