كلبچه
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See also: کلپچه
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- كلپچه (kelepçe)
Etymology
[edit]Metathesis of بیلكچه (bilekçe, “handcuff”), بیلك (bilek, “forearm”) + ـجه (-ce). Compare Azerbaijani kələfçə / کلپچه and Central Kurdish کەلەپچە (kelepçe), Persian کلپچه (kelepče), Turkic borrowings. For the sense development, see طبانجه (tabanca, “pistol”).
Noun
[edit]كلبچه • (kelepçe)
- a pair of handcuffs
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Eren, Hasan (1999) “kelepçe”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 228b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلبچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1034a
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kelepçe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Stachowski, Marek (2019) “kelepçe”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, , page 215a