آت بالغی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From آت (at, “horse”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).
Noun
آت بالغی • (at balığı)
- hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “آت بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 4
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Hippopotamus”, 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, Vienna, column 698
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “آت بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 34
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “آت بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 17