karafatma
Appearance
Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]Compound of kara (“black”) + Fatma (“Fatima, a female given name”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]karafatma (definite accusative karafatmayı, plural karafatmalar)
- ground beetle, carabid, any of numerous beetles in the genus Carabus
- Synonym: ağılı böcek
- synonym of hamam böceği (“cockroach”)
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “karafatma”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “karafatma”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “karafatma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2416