قیلچق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قیل (qıl, “hair, bristle”) +‎ ـچق (-çık, diminutive suffix).

Noun

قیلچق • (qılçık)

1. fishbone, fish-spine

   Synonym: دیكن (diken)

Derived terms

• قيلچيقلو (qılçıklı, “full of fishbones”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kılçık

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیلچق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1001
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Arista”, 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 84
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kılçık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیلچق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1509