كلیز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

كلیز • (kiliz)

1. reed, any of various grass-like plants that grow near water

   Synonyms: صاز (saz), قامش (kamış), قصب (kasab), نی (ney)

Derived terms

• كلیز بالغی (kiliz balığı, “tench”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kiliz — Edirne

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kiliz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2671
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “kiliz”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 244a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلیز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1037
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كلیز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1570