كلبك

Ottoman Turkish

كلبك

Alternative forms

• كپنك (kepenek)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kepelek (“butterfly”); cognate with Azerbaijani kəpənək, Bashkir күбәләк (kübələk), Kazakh көбелек (köbelek), Kyrgyz көпөлөк (köpölök), Turkmen kebelek, Uyghur كېپىنەك (këpinek) and Uzbek kapalak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [cɛlɛˈbɛc]

Noun

كلبك • (kelebek)

1. butterfly, any diurnal flying insect of the order Lepidoptera

Descendants

• Turkish: kelebek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kelebek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2529
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كلبك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 393b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلبك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1034
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Papilio”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1238
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كلبك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3995
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kelebek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كلبك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1561