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], Constantinople: Mihran, page 978
Persian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
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 (ğuk) and چغز (čağz), both from Sogdian.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [quːɹ.bɒː.ɢé]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Iranian reading? | ğurbâğe |
Noun[edit]
| Dari | بقه, کورباقه |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | قورباغه |
| Tajik | қурбоқа |
قورباغه • (qurbâğe) (plural قورباغهها (qurbâğe-hâ))
Derived terms[edit]
- بچه قورباغه (bačče-ye qurbâğe, “tadpole”)