Where does “kaplumbağa” come from?

kaplumbağa (Turkish) comes from Turkish bağa, from Proto-Turkic *bāka — frog, toad.

kaplumbağa (Turkish): turtle, tortoise

Definitions

  1. turtle, tortoise

Ancestry of “kaplumbağa”, step by step

kaplumbağa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish bağa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishbağafrog, turtle
2Proto-Turkic*bākafrog, toad

via Turkish kaplı

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishkaplıcovered

Words derived from “kaplumbağa”

Every word from Proto-Turkic *bāka →Every word from Turkish bağa →