كلبچه

See also: کلپچه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كلپچه (kelepçe)

Etymology

Metathesis of بیلكچه (bilekçe, “handcuff”), بیلك (bilek, “forearm”) +‎ ـجه (-ce). Compare Azerbaijani kələfçə / کلپچه and Central Kurdish کەلەپچە (kelepçe), Persian کلپچه (kelepče), Turkic borrowings. For the sense development, see طبانجه (tabanca, “pistol”).

Noun

كلبچه • (kelepçe)

1. a pair of handcuffs

Descendants

• Turkish: kelepçe
• → Arabic: كَلَبْشَة (kalabša)
• → Armenian: քէլէփչէ (kʻēlēpʻčʻē), քէլէպճէ (kʻēlēpčē)

References

• Eren, Hasan (1999) “kelepçe”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 228b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلبچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1034a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kelepçe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Stachowski, Marek (2019) “kelepçe”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 215a