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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بالغ (baliğ), from Arabic بَالِغ (bāliḡ), from بَلَغَ (balaḡa, “to arrive at; to reach puberty”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
baliğ (archaic)
- adolescent
- Synonym: ergen
Derived terms
References
- “baliğ”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 247
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “baliğ”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 334
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN