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Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Anatolian Turkish كلنك (külünk, külüng), itself from Persian کلنگ (kolang, “pickaxe”).
Noun
كلنك • (külünk)
- pickaxe, a heavy iron tool used to break stones or rocks
- Synonyms: صاقور (sakur), فاس (fas), قازمه (kazma)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “külünk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2892
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “külüng”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 638
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1036
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Malleus”, 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 994
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كلنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4003
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كلنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1568