مرجان بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

مرجان بالغی

Etymology

From مرجان‎ (mercan, “coral”) + بالق‎ (balık, “fish”).

Noun

مرجان بالغی‎ • (mercan balığı)

red gurnard, any benthic, ray-finned fish of the species Chelidonichthys cuculus

Descendants

Turkish: mercan balığı

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mercan balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3147
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مرجان بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1805

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