بیلكچه
Ottoman Turkish
بیلكچه
Alternative forms
- بیلكجه (bilekce)
Etymology
From بیلك (bilek, “forearm; wrist”) + ـچه (-çe, “diminutive suffix”).
Noun
بیلكچه • (bilekçe)
- pastern, the part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof
- handcuff, one ring of a locking fetter for the hand or one pair
- Synonym: كلپچه (kelepçe)
- jess, a short strap fastened around the leg of a hawk used in falconry
Descendants
- Turkish: bilekçe
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bilekçe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 605
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بیلكچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 303
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Cippus”, 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 181
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بیلكچه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 878
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بیلكجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 425