سولوك

Ottoman Turkish

سولوك

Alternative forms

• سولك (sülük)

Etymology

Usually derived from Persian زالو (zâlu), زروک (zoruk, “leech”), but the Turkish form needs to be explained in terms of sound. Alternatively, inherited from Proto-Turkic *sül- (“leech”); cognate with Bashkir һөлөк (hölök), Kazakh сүлік (sülık), Kyrgyz сүлүк (sülük), Tatar сөлек (sölek), Turkmen sülük, Uyghur سۈلۈك (sülük) and Uzbek zuluk.

Noun

سولوك • (sülük)

1. leech, any blood-sucking annelid of the class Hirudinea

   Synonyms: زالو (zalu), علقه (ʿalaka)

Derived terms

• اشك سولوكی (eşek sülüğü, “horse-leech”)
• سولوكجی (sülükcü, “leech-fisher”)
• سولوكلو (sülüklü, “abounding in leeches”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sülük
• → Albanian: suluk
• → Armenian: սիւլիւկ (siwliwk)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sülük1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4375
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “sülük”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 379a
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سولك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 280a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سولوك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 702
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hirudo”, 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 699
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سولك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2715
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sülük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سولوك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1094