ییلانجق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ییلان (yılan, “snake”) +‎ ـجق (-cık, diminutive suffix).

Noun

ییلانجق • (yılancık)

1. diminutive of ییلان
2. erysipelas, an acute febrile disease

Derived terms

• ییلانجقجی (yılancıkcı, “doctor who treats erysipelas”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yılancık
• → Armenian: յըլանճըխ (yəlančəx)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yılancık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5319
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ییلانجق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1370
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ییلانجق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 5599
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلانجق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2224