قره قوربغه

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Ottoman Turkish

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قره قوربغه

Etymology

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From قره (kara, black) + قوربغه (kurbağa, frog).

Noun

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قره قوربغه (kara kurbağa)

  1. toad, any kind of frog with shorter hindlegs and wartier skin

Further reading

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قره قوربغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 978
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Bufo”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[2], Vienna, column 128
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قره قوربغه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484