شلتوک

Persian

Etymology

From شالی (šâli), same, + توک (tôk, “bundle, fagot; handle, grip”).

Noun

شلتوک • (šaltôk)

1. rice-hull, rice-husk
2. rice still in the husk

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: çəltik
  • → Armenian: չալթուկ (čʻaltʻuk)
  • → Russian: чалты́к (čaltýk)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چلتیك (çeltik), چلتوك (çeltük), چیلتیك (çiltik), شلتوك (şeltük)
  • Turkish: çeltik

References

• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “شلتوک”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 457