قیل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kïl; cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (kil), Yakut кыл (kıl), Uyghur قىل (qil), Kazakh қыл (qyl), Bashkir ҡыл (qıl, “hair”) and Kyrgyz кыл (kıl).

Noun

قیل • (qıl)

1. (in general) hair, bristle
2. haircloth, sackcloth
3. hair-like thing or object
4. hair's breadth, slight portion

Coordinate terms

• توی (tüy, “hair on the body”)
• صاچ (saç, “hair on the head”)

Derived terms

• قیلجغز (qılcağız, “small hair or bristle”)
• قیلجه (qılca, “in respect of hair”)
• قیلچق (qılçık, “fishbone”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: kıl
• Turkish: kıl
• → Armenian: խըլ (xəl)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1000
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 3825–3826
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kıl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1511