ایپك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
This word ultimately evolved from ایپ (ip, “string, cord, rope, line”); cognate with Crimean Tatar yipek, Kumyk йибек (yibek), Azerbaijani ipək, Turkmen ýüpek, Uzbek ipak, Kazakh жібек (jıbek), Kyrgyz жибек (jibek), Khakas чібек (çìbek) and Uyghur يىپەك (yipek).
Noun
ایپك • (ipek)
- silk, a fine fiber excreted by the silkworm
- Synonyms: ابرشیم (ibrişim), حریر (harir)
Derived terms
- ایپك بوجكی (ipek böceği, “silkworm”)
- ایپكجی (ipekci, “silk-merchant”)
Descendants
- Turkish: ipek
- → Armenian: իփեկ (ipʿek)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “ipek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2193
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ایپك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 211
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sericum”, 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 1545
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ipek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ایپك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 286