baliğ

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بالغ, from Arabic بَالِغ (bāliḡ), from بَلَغَ (balaḡa, “to arrive at; to reach puberty”).

Adjective

baliğ (archaic)

1. amounting to, attaining
2. adolescent

Related terms

• büluğ

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 247
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “baliğ”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 334
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN