قیلچق

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قیل (qıl, hair, bristle) +‎ ـچق (-çık, diminutive suffix).

Noun

قیلچق (qılçık)

  1. fishbone, fish-spine
    Synonym: دیكن (diken)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: kılçık

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیلچق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1001
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Arista”, 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 84
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kılçık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیلچق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1509