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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish متالك (metalik, metelik), from French métallique.
Cognate with English metallic.
Noun
metelik (definite accusative metaliği, plural metelikler)
- (historical) a copper coin worth 10 paras
- 1931 January 1, Son Posta, caption below comic of a woman showing old junk to a man:
Usage notes
- The word surived past the end of the coin it described in the phrase metelik etmez, not worth a dime, as in the quotation above.
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “متالك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1104
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN