balıklava
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish بالقلاغه (balıklaga), from بالقلاق (balıklak), from بالق (balık, “fish”). Possibly equivalent to balık (“fish”) + yuva (“nest”).
Pronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: ba‧lık‧la‧va
Noun
editbalıklava (definite accusative balıklavayı, plural balıklavalar)
- good fishing ground
Declension
editReferences
edit- “balıklava”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالقلاغه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335