بالنه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian balena.

Noun

بالنه • (balena)

1. whale, any large cetacean excluding dolphins and porpoises

   Synonym: آطه بالغی (ada balığı)

Descendants

• Turkish: balina
• → Azerbaijani: balina
• → Armenian: պալէնա (palēna)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “balina”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 453
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بالنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 249
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “balina”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بالنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335