ایپلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ایپ (ip, “string, rope, cord”) +‎ ـلك (lik).

Noun

ایپلك • (iplik)

1. fibre, both of vegetable or animal origin
2. thread, a long, thin and flexible form of material
3. yarn, twisted strand of fibre used for knitting or weaving

Derived terms

• ایپلكجی (iplikci, “dealer in threads”)
• ایپلكخانه (iplikhane, “spinning-mill”)
• ایپلكسز (ipliksız, “threadless”)
• ایپلكلندرمك (ipliklendirmek, “to beat or wear into fibres”)
• ایپلكلنمك (ipliklenmek, “to separate into fibres”)
• ایپلكلو (iplikli, “fibrous”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: iplik
• → Serbo-Croatian: iplik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iplik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2197
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایپلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 211
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Filum”, 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 578
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iplik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایپلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 286