یلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish يَلَك, from Old Anatolian Turkish يَل (“wind”), from Old Turkic 𐰘𐰠 (yél), from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”).

Noun

یلك • (yelek)

1. waistcoat, vest
2. jelick

Descendants

• Turkish: yelek
• → Albanian: jelek
• → Arabic: جَلِيقَة (jalīqa)
  • → French: gilet
    • → English: gilet
    • → Italian: gilè
    • → Russian: жиле́т (žilét)
• → Egyptian Arabic: يَلَك (yalak) (obsolete)
• → Aromanian: ilecie
• → Bulgarian: елече (eleče)
• → English: jelick
• → Greek: γιλέκο (giléko), γελέκο (geléko)
• → Italian: giulecco
  • → Spanish: chaleco
    • → Galician: chaleco
• → Macedonian: елек (elek)
• → Persian: یلک
• → Romanian: ilic
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: јѐлек

  Latin script: jèlek