kaplumbağa

Meaning

turtle, tortoise, Testudines

Concepts

turtle

🐢

tortoise

sea turtle

terrapin

Synonyms

tosbağa

Translations

tortue

Schildkröte

🐢

tartaruga

🐢

tartaruga

🐢

tortuga

🐢

testudo

schildpad

tortuga

🐢

χελώνα

سلحفاة

🐢

سُلَحْفَاة

testuggine

Landschildkröte

chelys

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kapˈɫʊm.baː/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: قاپلومبغه

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاپلومبغه (kaplumbağa), with the epenthesis of /m/ from earlier قاپلو بغه (kaplu bağa, literally “shield-toad”). By surface analysis, kaplı (“covered”) + bağa (“toad”).