سیڭكلك

Ottoman Turkish

سیڭكلك

Etymology

From سیڭك (siñek, “fly”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, luk).

Noun

سیڭكلك • (siñeklik)

1. flyswatter, a hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects

Descendants

• Turkish: sineklik
• → Armenian: սինէքլիկ (sinēkʻlik)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sineklik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4250
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیڭكلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 708
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Muscarium”, 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 1107
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سككلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2643
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سینكلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104