afalina

== English == === Etymology === From Turkish afalina. === Noun === afalina (plural afalinas) A Black Sea bottlenose dolphin; Tursiops truncatus. === Anagrams === Alaafin == Turkish == === Alternative forms === afala (İzmir, Rize) afarna (Ordu) === Etymology === Borrowed into Turkish dialects from dialectal forms of Greek φάλαινα (fálaina), from Ancient Greek φάλλαινα (phállaina, “whale”). Doublet of balina (“whale”). === Noun === afalina (definite accusative afalinayı, plural afalinalar) (Akçaabat, Sürmene, Trabzon) bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Coordinate terms: mutur, dırdak ==== Related terms ==== falyanos ==== Descendants ==== → Russian: афали́на (afalína), офели́на (ofelína) — obsolete→ Abkhaz: афали́на (afalína)→ Armenian: աֆալինա (afalina)→ Azerbaijani: afalina→ Georgian: აფალინა (apalina)→ Ukrainian: афалі́на (afalína) → English: afalina → Romanian: afalin → Bulgarian: афа́ла (afála) === References === === Further reading === Öztürk, Özhan (2005), “afalina”, in Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük [Black Sea: Encyclopaedic Dictionary]‎[5] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul: Heyamola Yayınları, page 16b Tzitzilis, Christos (1987), Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen (mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der anatolischen Dialekte) (Schriften der Balkan-Kommission, philologische Abteilung; 33)‎[6] (in German), Vienna: Academy Press, § 557, page 132, derives the form afala from Hesychian φάλ(λ)α (phál(l)a, “whale”) 2002, Alexei Birkun, "The current status of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Black Sea", section 3 ("Range states and common names")