تلكی

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Ottoman Turkish

تلكی

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish دلكو (dilkü, fox), itself from Proto-Turkic *tülki, *tilkü (fox); cognate with Azerbaijani tülkü, Bashkir төлкө (tölkö), Chuvash тилӗ (tilĕ), Kazakh түлкі (tülkı), Kyrgyz түлкү (tülkü), Turkmen tilki, Uyghur تۈلكە (tülke) and Uzbek tulki.

Noun

تلكی (tilki)

  1. fox, any of various canids in the genus Vulpes
    Synonyms: ثعلب (seʿleb), روباه (rubah)
  2. (figurative) fox, a sly and cunning person

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: tilki
  • Armenian: թիլքի (tʻilkʻi)

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