مرجان بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

مرجان بالغی

Etymology

From مرجان (mercan, “coral”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

مرجان بالغی • (mercan balığı)

1. red gurnard, any benthic, ray-finned fish of the species Chelidonichthys cuculus

Descendants

• Turkish: mercan balığı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mercan balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3147
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرجان بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1805