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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish جلق, of unknown origin.
Adjective
cılk
- addled, rotten (of an egg)
- inflamed, festering (of a wound)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “cılk”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cılk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 671
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN