یونس بالغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یونس (yunus, “Jonah”) +‎ بالق (balık, “fish”).

Noun

یونس بالغی • (yunus balığı)

1. either of three species of cetaceans:
   1. common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
   2. porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
   3. Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)

Descendants

• Turkish: yunus balığı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yunus balığı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5387
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یونس بالغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1369
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یونس بالغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2221