مرسین بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From مرسین (mersin, “myrtle”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

مرسین بالغی • (mersin balığı)

  1. sturgeon, any marine or freshwater fish of the family Acipenseridae, especially Acipenser sturio

Descendants

  • Turkish: mersin balığı

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mersin balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3157
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مرسین بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1149
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sturio”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1609
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مرسین بالغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[3], Vienna, column 4572
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