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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From یونس (yunus, “Jonah”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).
Noun
یونس بالغی • (yunus balığı)
- either of three species of cetaceans:
- common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
- porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
- Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yunus balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5387
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یونس بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1369
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یونس بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2221