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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Related to چالیق (çalık, “struck, hit by a blow; bevelled, slanting, awry”), and that to چالمق (çalmak, “to strike, to hit by a blow”).
Compare also Ottoman Turkish چلك (çelek, “wooden bucket”) and Persian چالیک (čâlik, “tipcat”), چلک (čalok, “tipcat”), Chagatai چالك (çalk, “tipcat”).
Noun
چلیك • (çelik)
- a piece of wood or metal bevelled or tapering at one or both ends; tipcat; a pin or marling spike, carling, any piece of timber that is fixed in a fore-and-aft position
- steel
- Synonym: پولاد (polad, polat)
Descendants
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1642
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 364