پرمقلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پرمق (parmak, “finger; rail”) +‎ ـلق (-lık).

Noun

پرمقلق • (parmaklık)

1. stall, a sheath to protect a sore finger
2. railing, a fence or barrier formed by metal rods
3. balustrade, banister, handrail on the side of a staircase

   Synonym: طرابزان (tarabizan)

Descendants

• Turkish: parmaklık
• → Armenian: փառմախլըխ (pʻaṙmaxləx), բարմաղլըղ (barmaġləġ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “parmaklık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3782
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پرمقلق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 115b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرمقلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 312
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clathrum”, 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 189
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پرمقلق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 786
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرمقلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 444