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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
A compound of بالق (balık, “fish”) + خانه (hâne, “place”).
Noun
بالقخانه • (balıkhane)
- fish farm or fishpond, a place dedicated to the raising of fish
- (historical) the custom house for dues on fish brought to market in Istanbul
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “balıkhane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 452
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالقخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 249
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Piscina”, 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 1303
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالقخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335