كلیم

See also: كليم and گلیم

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian گلیم (gelim, “carpet”), from Ancient Greek κάλυμμα (kálumma, “covering”) from καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover”).

Noun

كلیم • (kilim)

1. carpet, a fabric used as a complete floor covering

   Synonym: خالی (halı)

Descendants

• Turkish: kilim
• → Albanian: qilim, qylym
• → Armenian: քիլիմ (kʻilim)
• → Arabic: كِلِيم (kilīm)
• → Belarusian: кілі́м (kilím)
• → Bulgarian: кили́м (kilím)
• → Greek: κιλίμι (kilími)
• → Macedonian: ќилим (ḱilim)
• → Romanian: chilim
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ћѝлим

  Latin script: ćìlim

• → Ukrainian: ки́лим (kýlym)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kilim”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2670
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كلیم”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 394b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلیم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1037
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tapes”, 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 1649
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كلیم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4008
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kilim”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كلیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1568

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic كَلِيم (kalīm, “interlocutor”), a derivation from the verb كَلَّمَ (kallama, “to speak, talk”).

Noun

كلیم • (kelim)

1. interlocutor, collocutor, conversant, a person who takes part in dialogue or conversation

   Synonym: متكلم (mütekellim)

Derived terms

• كلیم اللّٰه (kelimʼullah, “Moses”)
• كلیمدست (kelimdest, “talented”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kelim

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kelim1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2533
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “kelîm”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[6] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 605
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلیم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1037
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كلیم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 4008
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كلیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1568