تلكی
Ottoman Turkish
تلكی
Alternative forms
- دلكو (dilkü)
Etymology
From Old Anatolian Turkish دلكو (dilkü, “fox”), itself from Proto-Turkic *tülki, *tilkü (“fox”); cognate with Azerbaijani tülkü, Bashkir төлкө (tölkö), Chuvash тилӗ (tilĕ), Kazakh түлкі (tülkı), Kyrgyz түлкү (tülkü), Turkmen tilki, Uyghur تۈلكە (tülke) and Uzbek tulki.
Noun
تلكی • (tilki)
Derived terms
- آق تلكی (ak tilki, “arctic fox”)
- تلكی اوزومی (tilki üzümü, “nightshade”)
- تلكی طاشاغی (tilki taşağı, “green-winged orchid”)
- تلكی طرناغی (tilki tırnağı, “early spring orchid”)
- تلكی قویروغی (tilki kuyruğu, “foxtail”)
- تلكیلك (tilkilik, “slyness, craftiness”)
- سیاه تلكی (siyah tilki, “silver fox”)
- قرمزی تلكی (kırmızı tilki, “red fox”)
Descendants
- Turkish: tilki
- → Armenian: թիլքի (tʻilkʻi)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tilki1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4827
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دلكو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 228b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تلكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 399
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vulpes”, 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 1801
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دلكو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2126
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tilki”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تلكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 589
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