ایپلك

ایپلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ایپ‎ (ip, “string, rope, cord”) +‎ ـلك‎ (lik).

Noun

ایپلك • (iplik)

1. fibre, both of vegetable or animal origin
2. thread, a long, thin and flexible form of material
3. yarn, twisted strand of fibre used for knitting or weaving

Derived terms

• ایپلكجی‎ (iplikci, “dealer in threads”)
• ایپلكحانه‎ (iplikhane, “spinning-mill”)
• ایپلكسز‎ (ipliksız, “threadless”)
• ایپلكلندرمك‎ (ipliklendirmek, “to beat or wear into fibres”)
• ایپلكلنمك‎ (ipliklenmek, “to separate into fibres”)
• ایپلكلو‎ (iplikli, “fibrous”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: iplik
• → Serbo-Croatian: iplik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “iplik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2197
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ایپلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 211
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Filum”, 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 578
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “iplik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ایپلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 286