بیلكچه

Ottoman Turkish

بیلكچه

Alternative forms

• بیلكجه (bilekce)

Etymology

From بیلك (bilek, “forearm; wrist”) +‎ ـچه (-çe, “diminutive suffix”).

Noun

بیلكچه • (bilekçe)

1. pastern, the part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof

   Synonym: بوقاغیلق (bukağılık)

2. handcuff, one ring of a locking fetter for the hand or one pair

   Synonym: كلپچه (kelepçe)

3. jess, a short strap fastened around the leg of a hawk used in falconry

Descendants

• Turkish: bilekçe

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bilekçe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 605
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیلكچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 303
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cippus”, 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 181
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیلكچه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 878
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیلكجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 425