جرلاق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From جرلامق (cırlamak, “to creak, chirp”).

Noun

جرلاق • (cırlak)

1. house cricket; field cricket
2. shrike
3. a person with a screeching voice

Descendants

• Turkish: cırlak

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جرلاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 655