بیلكچه
Ottoman Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- بیلكجه (bilekce)
Etymology edit
From بیلك (bilek, “forearm; wrist”) + ـچه (-çe, “diminutive suffix”).
Noun edit
بیلكچه • (bilekçe)
- pastern, the part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof
- Synonym: بوقاغیلق (bukağılık)
- 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 edit
- Turkish: bilekçe
Further reading edit
- 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[1], 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[2], 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[3], Vienna, column 878
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیلكجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 425