قیلچق
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قیل (qıl, “hair, bristle”) + ـچق (-çık, diminutive suffix).
Noun
قیلچق • (qılçık)
- fishbone, fish-spine
- Synonym: دیكن (diken)
Derived terms
- قيلچيقلو (qılçıklı, “full of fishbones”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kılçık
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قیلچق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1001
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kılçık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قیلچق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1509