هیپوپوتام
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French hippopotame (“hippopotamus”), from Ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos, “hippopotamus”).
Noun[edit]
هیپوپوتام • (hipopotam)
- hippopotamus, any large, semi-aquatic mammal of the species Hippopotamus amphibius
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: hipopotam
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hipopotam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1970
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “hippopotamus”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 243a
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hipopotam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük