آیی بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

آیی بالغی

Etymology

From آیی (ayı, “bear”) +‎ بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

آیی بالغی • (ayı balığı)

1. seal, especially the common seal (Phoca vitulina)

Descendants

• Turkish: ayı balığı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ayı balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 382
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آیی بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 44
• Redhouse, J. W. (1884) “seal”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 668
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آیی بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 311