ıslık
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اصلق (ıṣlıḳ, “a whistling noise”)[1] (alternatively اصلیق or ایصلق), from Karakhanid سِقْرِقْ (sıḳrıḳ, “a whistle”), from سِقِرْماقْ (sıḳırmaḳ, “to whistle”), from Proto-Turkic *sïkïr- or *sïgïr- (“to whistle”).[2] Compare Proto-Turkic *sïgïrčïk (“starling”).[3] Cognates with Azerbaijani islıq, Kazakh ысқырық (ysqyryq), Kyrgyz ышкырык (ışkırık), Turkmen sykylyk.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ıslık (definite accusative ıslığı, plural ıslıklar)
Declension
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اصلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 130
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ıslık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sɨgɨrčɨk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
[edit]- “ıslık”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ıslık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2056