ایپك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yïpak (“silk”), a development of *yïp (“string, cord, rope”), whence ایپ (ip, “string, cord, rope, line”). Cognate with Azerbaijani ipək, Kazakh жібек (jıbek), Kyrgyz жибек (jibek), Salar yipek, Turkmen ýüpek, Uyghur يىپەك (yipek) and Uzbek ipak.

Noun

ایپك • (ipek)

1. silk, a fine fiber excreted by the silkworm

   Synonyms: ابرشیم (ibrişim), حریر (harir), قز (kazz)

Derived terms

• ایپك بوجكی (ipek böceği, “silkworm”)
• ایپك طولابی (ipek dolabi, “silk-winder”)
• ایپكجی (ipekci, “silk-merchant”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ipek
• → Armenian: իփեկ (ipʻek)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ipek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2193
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایپك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 211
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sericum”, 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 1545
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ipek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایپك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 286