بالق یاغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بالق (balık, “fish”) + یاغ (yağ, “oil, grease”).

Noun

بالق یاغی • (balık yağı)

fish oil, a dietary supplement made up of oil derived from the tissues of oily fish

Descendants

Turkish: balık yağı
→ Armenian: պալըխ յաղը (paləx yaġə)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “balık yağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 452
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالق یاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 247
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالق یاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335

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