قره سیڭك
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From قره (kara, “black”) + سیڭك (siñek, “fly”).
Noun[edit]
- housefly, any fly of the species Musca domestica
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: karasinek
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karasinek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2425
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره سیڭك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104