قار طوپی
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Etymology
[edit]From قار (kar, “snow”) + طوپ (top, “ball”).
Noun
[edit]- snowball (a ball of snow usually thrown for amusement in a snowball fight)
- viburnum, guelder rose, any deciduous shrub of the species Viburnum opulus
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kartopu
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kartopu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2451
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قار طوپی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 923
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قار طوپی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1411