سولوك

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Ottoman Turkish

سولوك

Alternative forms

Etymology

Usually derived from Persian زالو (zâlu), زروک (zoruk, leech), but the Turkish form needs to be explained in terms of sound. Alternatively, inherited from Proto-Turkic *sül- (leech); cognate with Bashkir һөлөк (hölök), Kazakh сүлік (sülık), Kyrgyz сүлүк (sülük), Tatar сөлек (sölek), Turkmen sülük, Uyghur سۈلۈك (sülük) and Uzbek zuluk.

Noun

سولوك (sülük)

  1. leech, any blood-sucking annelid of the class Hirudinea
    Synonyms: زالو (zalu), علقه (ʿalaka)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: sülük
  • Albanian: suluk
  • Armenian: սիւլիւկ (siwliwk)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sülük1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4375
  • Eren, Hasan (1999) “sülük”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 379a
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سولك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 280a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سولوك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 702
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hirudo”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 699
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سولك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2715
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sülük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سولوك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1094