ایپلك

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Derived from اِیپْ (ip, “string, thread, rope”)

Noun

اِیپْلِكْ (iplik)

1. fiber
2. yarn, thread

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: iplik
• Gagauz: iplik
• Ottoman Turkish: ایپلك (iplik), ایپلیك (iplik)
  • Turkish: iplik
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: иплик

    Latin script: iplik

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• ایپلیك (iplik)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اِیپْلِكْ (iplik, “fiber; yarn, thread”). By surface analysis, ایپ (ip, “string, rope, cord”) +‎ ـلك (lik).

Noun

ایپلك • (iplik) (definite accusative ایپلكی (ipliği), plural ایپلكلر (iplikler))

1. fibre, a single piece of a vegetable or animal material, elongated and often twisted with other fibres to form thread

   Synonym: لیف (lif)

2. thread, filament, a long, thin and flexible form of material, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string

   Synonyms: تل (“tel”), خیط (hayt)

3. yarn, a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, used in crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, ropemaking, etc.

Derived terms

• ایكنه ایپلك (iğne iplik, “haberdashery; skin and bones”)
• ایپلك اكیرمك (iplik eğirmek, “to spin yarn”)
• ایپلك ایپلك (iplik iplik, “in fibers”)
• ایپلك بز (iplik bez, “linen cloth of any kind”)
• ایپلك پنیری (iplik peniri, “kind of cheese marked with threads”)
• ایپلك یوماغی (iplik yumağı, “ball of yarn”)
• ایپلكجی (iplikci, “dealer in threads”)
• ایپلكخانه (iplikhâne, “spinning-mill”)
• ایپلكسز (ipliksiz, “threadless”)
• ایپلكلندرمك (ipliklendirmek, “to beat or wear into fibres”)
• ایپلكلنمك (ipliklenmek, “to separate into fibres”)
• ایپلكلو (iplikli, “fibrous”)
• ایپلیجك (iplicik, “Guinea worm”)
• پاموق ایپلكی (pamuk ipliği, “cotton yarn”)
• یوك ایپلك (yüñ iplik, “woollen yarn”)

Related terms

• ایپ (ip, “string”)
• ایپك (ipek, “silk”)

Descendants

• Turkish: iplik
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: иплик

  Latin script: iplik

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “ایپلیك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 216
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iplik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2197
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اپلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 3b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایپلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 211
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Filum”, 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 578
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اپلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 30
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iplik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایپلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 286