چلیك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • چلك (çelik), چالیك (çalik)

Etymology

Related to چالیق (çalık, “struck, hit by a blow; bevelled, slanting, awry”), and that to چالمق (çalmak, “to strike, to hit by a blow”). Compare also Ottoman Turkish چلك (çelek, “wooden bucket”) and Persian چالیک (čâlik, “tipcat”), چلک (čalok, “tipcat”), Chagatai چالك (çalk, “tipcat”).

Noun

چلیك • (çelik)

  1. a piece of wood or metal bevelled or tapering at one or both ends; tipcat; a pin or marling spike, carling, any piece of timber that is fixed in a fore-and-aft position
  2. steel
    Synonym: پولاد (polad, polat)

Descendants
  • Turkish: çelik
  • → Albanian: çelik
  • → Armenian: չելիկ (čʻelik)
  • → Aromanian: cilechi, ciulichi
  • → Bulgarian: чели́к (čelík)
  • → Macedonian: челик (čelik)
  • → Romanian: cilic
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чѐлик
    Latin script: čèlik

References
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1642
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “چلك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 364
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