قوربغه‌جق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قوربغه (kurbağa, “frog”) +‎ ـجق (-cuk, -cık, diminutive suffix).

Noun

قوربغه‌جق • (kurbağacık)

Diminutive of قوربغه (kurbağa, “frog”):
1. (pathology) ranula, a swelling located in the floor of the mouth, under the tongue
2. frog-shaped hasp or handle made of metal, by which a window-sash may be moved

Descendants

Turkish: kurbağacık

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurbağacık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2843
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوربغه‌جق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 978
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوربغه‌جق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484

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