آتش بوجكی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

آتش‎ (ateş, “fire”) +‎ بوجك‎ (böcek, “bug”), the prefix from Persian and the suffix from Turkic.

Noun

آتش بوجكی‎ • (ateş böceği)

firefly

Descendants

Turkish: ateş böceği, ateşböceği

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) , “آتش بوجكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 5

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