كوپك بالغی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From كوپك (köpek, “dog”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).
Noun edit
- dogfish, any of various small sharks, but especially:
- the smooth hound (Mustelus mustelus)
- the tope (Galeorhinus galeus)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: köpek balığı
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “köpek balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2786
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوپك بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1046
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوپك بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1582