اسكلت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French squelette (“skeleton”), itself from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried body; mummy”).

Noun

اسكلت • (iskelet)

1. skeleton, the system of bones that provides support to a vertebrate

   Synonym: قفس (kafes)

Descendants

• Turkish: iskelet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iskelet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2218
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسكلت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 90