tısbağa

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic тысбаға
Perso-Arabic تیسباغا

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (taš-baqa)[1], equivalent to daş (stone) + bağa (turtle; earlier: frog).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tɯsbɑˈɣɑ]
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  • Hyphenation: tıs‧ba‧ğa

Noun

tısbağa (definite accusative tısbağanı, plural tısbağalar)

  1. turtle, tortoise
    Bir gün tısbağa əqrəblə dost oldu.
    One day, the turtle and the scorpion became friends.

Declension

References

  1. Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006) Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 180
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