كلنك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كولونك (külünk)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish كلنك (külünk, külüng), itself from Persian کلنگ (kolang, “pickaxe”).

Noun

كلنك • (külünk)

1. pickaxe, a heavy iron tool used to break stones or rocks

   Synonyms: صاقور (sakur), فاس (fas), قازمه (kazma)

Descendants

• Turkish: külünk
• → Romanian: chilom

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “külünk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2892
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “külüng”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 638
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1036
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Malleus”, 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 994
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كلنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4003
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كلنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1568