بالقجیل

بالقجیل

Ottoman Turkish

بالقجیل

Alternative forms

• بالقچل‎ (balıkçıl)

Etymology

From بالق‎ (balık, “fish”) +‎ ـجیل‎ (-cil).

Noun

بالقجیل • (balıkcıl)

1. heron, any wading bird of the family Ardeidae

   Synonym: بوتیمار‎ (butimar)

Descendants

• Turkish: balıkçıl

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “balıkçıl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 452
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بالقجیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 249
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Ardea”, 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 80
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بالقچل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 687
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “balıkçıl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بالقجیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335