آت سیڭكی

Ottoman Turkish

آت سیڭكی

Etymology

From آت (at, “horse”) + سیڭك (sinek, “fly”).

Noun

آت سیڭكی • (at siñeği)

1. horsefly, any of several flies of the family Tabanidae

   Synonym: بوكه‌لك (büğelek)

Descendants

• Turkish: at sineği

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “at sineği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 339
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 4
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tabanus”, 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 1645
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آت سیڭكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 35
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 17