كلبچه

See also: کلپچه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كلپچه (kelepçe)

Etymology

كلب (kelep, “yarn”) +‎ ـچه (-çe, diminutive suffix), by confusion with بیلكچه (bilekçe, “handcuff”). Also Azerbaijani kələfçə / کلپچه and hence Central Kurdish کەلەپچە (kelepçe), Persian کلپچه (kelepče).

Noun

كلبچه • (kelepçe)

1. a pair of handcuffs

Descendants

• Turkish: kelepçe
• → Arabic: كَلَبْشَة (kalabša)
• → Armenian: քելեփչե (kʻelepʻčʻe)

References

• 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
• Stachowski, Marek (2019) “kelepçe”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 215a