köken: From Middle High German belche, from Old High German belihha f, belihho m, from Proto-West Germanic *balikō, from Proto-Germanic *balikô (“coot”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“white; to shine, gleam”). Cognate with Old Saxon beliko (“coot”), Latin fulica (“coot”).
köken: Alteration of dialectal lișcă, from Bulgarian лиска (liska) or Ukrainian лусуха (lusuxa). Alternatively from dialectal leșiță, leșaică, if a derivative of leș, an old word for Pole (compare Russian лях (ljax), Turkish Leh). Cf. the name for another duck species, rață leșească (“Muscovy duck”), literally ‘Polish duck’.
Eurasian coot, common coot, Australian coot (Fulica atra)
çekim: çoğul szárcsák
köken: From szár (“yellowish, pale, bald”, obsolete in this sense) + -csa (diminutive suffix). The name is explained by the striking light spot on the body of the bird.
köken: According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Compare Old High German belihha ("coot"; > modern German Belche), Ancient Greek φαλός (phalós, “white”), Sanskrit भाल (bhāla, “splendour”), Old Armenian բալ (bal, “fog”) and Old English bǣl (English bale).