قره باتاق
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From قره (kara, “black”) + باتاق (batak, “swamp, marsh”).
Noun[edit]
- cormorant, any of various seabirds in the family Phalacrocoracidae
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: karabatak
- → Albanian: karabatak
- → Armenian: խարապաթախ (xarapatʻax)
- → Bulgarian: кара́бата́к (karábaták)
- → Greek: καραμπατάκι (karampatáki)
- → Serbo-Croatian: kȁrabatak／ка̏рабатак
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karabatak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2413
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره باتاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 231
- Redhouse, J. W. (1884) “cormorant”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 180
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره باتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 315