kılıç
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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قلج (kılıc), from Proto-Turkic *kïlï̄č (“sword”).
Cognate with Old Uyghur (qïlïč, “sword”); Kazakh қылыш (qylyş, “sword”), Shor қылыш (qïlïš, “sword”), Yakut кылыс (kılıs, “combat knife; sabre”), etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
kılıç (definite accusative kılıcı, plural kılıçlar)
- sword
- 1936 February 5, headline in Ulusal Birlik:
- Habeşler, Makalleyi aldılar ve garnizonlardaki askerleri kılıçtan geçirdiler
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- The Abyssinians took Mekelle and put the soldiers in the garrisons to the sword
- 1936 February 5, headline in Ulusal Birlik:
Declension
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Further reading
- “kılıç”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “kılıç”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı