قورباغه

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

قورباغه • (kurbağa)

1. alternative spelling of قوربغه (kurbağa, “frog”)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورباغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 978

Persian

قورباغه

Alternative forms

• (Archaic, Classical Persian) قرباقه (qurbaqa), قرباغه (qurbāġa), قربغه (qurbaġa)
• قورباقه (qurbaqe)
• قربک (qorbak) (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh)

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic. Compare Turkish kurbağa (“frog”), Azerbaijani qurbağa (“frog”), Uzbek qurbaqa (“frog”).

Largely displaced Iranian terms for "frog" such as وک (vak), inherited from Middle Persian, and غوک (ġuk) and چغز (čaġz), both from Sogdian.

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [quːɹ.bɒː.ˈɢe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [quɾ.bɔ.qǽ]

Readings
Iranian reading?	ġurbâġe
Tajik reading?	qurboqa

Noun

Dari	بقه
Iranian Persian	قورباغه
Tajik	қурбоқа

قورباغه • (qurbâġe) (plural قورباغه‌ها (qurbâġe-hâ))

1. frog

Derived terms

• بچه قورباغه (bačče-ye qurbâġe, “tadpole”)

Related terms

• باخه (bâxe, “turtle, tortoise”)