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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian گزلک.
Noun
گزلك • (gizlik)
- penknife, a small knife for cutting the points of reed pens
- Synonym: قلمتراش (kalemtıraş)
- sheath knife, a knife that fits in a protective sheath when not in use
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gizlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1719
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كزلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scalpellum”, 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 1515
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كزلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3942
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كزلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1544