ebabil
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish ابابیل (ebābil, “large flights of birds, legendary birds in the Qur'an, held by some to have been the alpine swift or a species of swallow”),[1][2] from Arabic أَبَابِيل (ʔabābīl).[3]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editebabil (definite accusative ebabili, plural ebabiller)
- (zoology) A medium-sized bird from the family Apodidae; the Common swift.
Declension
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ابابیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 6
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ابابیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 44
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ebabil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “ebabil”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu