بلكو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

بلگو

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bilegü (“hone, whetstone”), a development of *bile- (“to sharpen”), from which بیله‌مك (bilemek, “to sharpen, hone”); cognate with Azerbaijani bülöv and Turkmen bilew.

Alternative forms

• بیلگو (bileği), بیله‌گی (bileği)

Noun

بلگو • (bileği, bileğü)

1. hone, whetstone, any stone used to sharpen an edged tool

   Synonyms: افسان (efsan), مسن (misenn), میقعه (mikaʿa)

Descendants

• Turkish: bileği
• → Armenian: պիլէյի (pilēyi) — Constantinople
• → Laz: ბილევი (bilevi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bileği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 604
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بیلگو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 140a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیله‌گی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 304
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cos”, 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 295
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bileği”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بلكو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 383

Etymology 2

From بلمك (bilmek, “to know”).

Noun

بلگو • (bilgi, bilgü)

1. knowledge

Alternative forms

• بیلگو, بلگی

Derived terms

• بیلگولو (bilgili)
• بیلگولك (bilgilik)

Descendants

• Turkish: bilgi

See also

• بیلك (bilik)
• معلومات (malumat)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بلكو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 383