مرسین بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From مرسین (mersin, “myrtle”) +‎ بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

مرسین بالغی • (mersin balığı)

1. sturgeon (Acipenser sturio)

Descendants

• Turkish: mersin balığı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mersin balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3157
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرسین بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1149
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sturio”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1609
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرسین بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4572
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرسین بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1812