قورباغه
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Noun
[edit]قورباغه • (kurbağa)
- alternative spelling of قوربغه (kurbağa, “frog”)
Further reading
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورباغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 978
Persian
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Alternative forms
[edit]- (Archaic, Classical Persian) قرباقه (qurbaqa), قرباغه (qurbāġa), قربغه (qurbaġa)
- قورباقه (qurbaqe)
- قربک (qorbak) (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh)
Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [quːɹ.bɒː.ˈɢe]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [quɾ.bɔ.qǽ]
Readings | |
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Iranian reading? | ġurbâġe |
Tajik reading? | qurboqa |
Noun
[edit]قورباغه • (qurbâġe) (plural قورباغهها (qurbâġe-hâ))
Derived terms
[edit]- بچه قورباغه (bačče-ye qurbâġe, “tadpole”)
Related terms
[edit]- باخه (bâxe, “turtle, tortoise”)