قوم بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

قوم بالغی

Etymology

From قوم (kum, “sand”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

قوم بالغی • (kum balığı)

1. skink, any lizard with small or reduced limbs in the family Scincidae

   Synonym: سقنقور (sakankur)

Descendants

• Turkish: kum balığı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kum balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2833
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوم بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 990
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوم بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1498