كلبچه

كلبچه

See also: کلپچه‎

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كلپچه‎ (kelepçe)

Etymology

كلب‎ (kelep, “yarn”) +‎ ـچه‎ (-çe, diminutive suffix), by confusion with بیلكچه‎ (bilekçe, “handcuff”). Also Azerbaijani kələfçə / کلپچه‎ and hence Persian کلپچه‎ (kelepçe).

Noun

كلبچه • (kelepçe)

1. a pair of handcuffs

Descendants

• Turkish: kelepçe
• → Arabic: كَلَبْشَة‎ (kalabša)
• → Armenian: քելեփչե (kʿelepʿčʿe)

References

• Eren, Hasan (1999), “kelepçe”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 228b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كلبچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1034a
• Stachowski, Marek (2019), “kelepçe”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, DOI:10.12797/9788381381581, page 215a