دلجك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دلچك (dilçik), دیلجك (dilcik)

Etymology

From دل (dil, “tongue”) +‎ ـجك (-cik, diminutive suffix).

Noun

دلجك • (dilcik) (definite accusative دلجكی (dilciği), plural دلجكلر (dilcikler))

1. (anatomy) clitoris, a sensitive, elongated, erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva

   Synonyms: بظر (bazr, bezar), دلاق (dılak)

2. (anatomy) palatine uvula, the uvula in the mouth, as distinguished to others present in the body

   Synonyms: كچوك دل (küçük dil), لهات (lahat)

3. pip, any of various respiratory diseases in birds, notably poultry, especially infectious coryza

Descendants

• Turkish: dilcik

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 783
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dilcik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1222
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دلجك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 228a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دیلجك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 600
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pituita”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1304
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دلجك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2121
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دلجك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 911