ككلیك بالغی
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Etymology
[edit]From ككلیك (keklik, “partridge”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).
Noun
[edit]- Mediterranean rainbow wrasse, a small, colourful fish of the species Coris julis
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: keklik balığı
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “keklik balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2526
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ككلیك بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1558