بیلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bilek (“wrist, forearm”); cognate with Azerbaijani bilək, Kazakh білек (bılek), Khakas білек (bìlek), Turkmen bilek, Tuvan билек (bilek) and Uzbek bilak.

Alternative forms

• بلك (bilek)

Noun

بیلك • (bilek)

1. (properly) forearm, the part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow
2. (properly) foreshank, the upper part of the foreleg of cattle
3. (usually) wrist, the complex joint where the hand is attached to the arm

Derived terms

• آت بیلكی (at bileği, “cannon, a horse's bone”)
• آیاق بیلكی (ayak bileği, “ankle”)
• بیلك طمری (bilek damarı, “radial vein”)
• بیلكچه (bilekçe, “handcuffs”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bilek
• → Armenian: բիլակ (bilak)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bilek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 604
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 303
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Carpus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 156
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 878
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bilek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 424

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian بیلک (bilek), a diminutive of بیل (bil, “spade, digging fork”).

Noun

بیلك • (bilek)

1. forkhead, an arrow with a barbed tip

Descendants

• Turkish: bilek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bilek3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 605
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 1004
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 424

Etymology 3

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bil- (“to know”), the same root of بلمك (bilmek, “to know”).

Alternative forms

• بلك (bilik)

Noun

بیلك • (bilik)

1. information, science, knowledge gained through study or practice
2. opinion, a belief, judgement or perspective that a person has formed

   Synonym: آرا (ara)

Descendants

• Turkish: bilik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bilik2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 608
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 424