اوكلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اوك (öñ, “front”) +‎ ـلك (-lık, luk).

Noun

اوكلك • (öñlük)

1. any thing put in front of something, like an apron

Descendants

• Turkish: önlük
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) էօնլիւխ (ēōnliwx), (Svedia) էօնգլիւգ (ēōngliwg)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “önlük”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3704
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوكلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 263