جلبند

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian جلدبند (cildband), a compound of جلد (jeld, “binding; volume”) + بند (band, “tie, fastening”).

Noun

جلبند • (cilbend)

1. portfolio, a case for carrying papers, drawings, photographs, maps and other flat documents

Descendants

• Turkish: cilbent

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cilbent”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 816
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جلبند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 443
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cilbent”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جلبند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 669