قار طوپی
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From قار (kar, “snow”) + طوپ (top, “ball”).
Noun[edit]
- snowball, a ball of snow usually thrown for amusement in a snowball fight
- viburnum, guelder rose, any deciduous shrub of the species Viburnum opulus
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: kartopu
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kartopu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2451
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قار طوپی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 923
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قار طوپی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1411