پلیچ

Ottoman Turkish

پلیچ

Alternative forms

• پلچ (piliç)

Etymology

From the unattested Greek word *πουλίτσα (*poulítsa, “chick, small bird”), a diminutive of πουλί (poulí, “bird”).

Noun

پلیچ • (piliç)

1. pullet, a young hen which is still sexually immature

Coordinate terms

• جیوجیو (civciv, “chick”)
• خروس (horos, “rooster, cock”)
• طاوق (tavuk, “hen”)

 

Derived terms

• پلیچ چیقارمق (piliç çıkarmak, “to latch eggs”)

Descendants

• Turkish: piliç
• → Armenian: փիլիճ (pʻilič)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “piliç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3853
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پلیچ”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 126b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلیچ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 324
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pullus”, 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 1404
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پلیچ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 888
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “piliç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلیچ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 452