قلاغی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kïlagu (“cutting edge”); cognate with Azerbaijani qılov, Bashkir ҡылау (qılaw), Kazakh қылау (qylau), Kumyk къылав (qılaw), Southern Altai кылаҥыр (kïlaŋïr) and Tatar кылау (qılaw).

Noun

قلاغی • (kılağı)

1. cutting edge, the sharp edge of the blade of a knife or other cutting tool

   Synonyms: غراب (gurab), كسكین (keskin), یالم (yalım)

Derived terms

• قلاغی ویرمك (kılağı virmek, “to put a cutting edge to a tool”)
• قلاغیسز (kılağısız, “blunt, dull”)
• قلاغیلو (kılağılı, “very sharp, keen”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kılağı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kılağı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2599
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قلاغی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 368a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 967
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Acies”, 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 14
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلاغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3739
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kılağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1468