مرجان بالغی
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Etymology
[edit]From مرجان (mercan, “coral”) + بالق (balık, “fish”).
Noun
[edit]- red gurnard, any benthic, ray-finned fish of the species Chelidonichthys cuculus
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: mercan balığı
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mercan balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3147
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرجان بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1805