لک‌لک

Persian

Alternative forms

• لگ‌لگ (lag-lag), لقلق (laqlaq)

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Semitic. Compare Akkadian 𒀀𒊩𒄷 (laqlaqqu, “stork”), Arabic لَقْلَق (laqlaq, “stork”), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܠܲܩܠܵܩܵܐ (laqlāqā, “stork”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [lak.ˈlak]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läk.lǽk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läk.lǽk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [läk.lǽk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [läk.lǽk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [lækʲ.lǽkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [läk.lǽk]

Readings
Classical reading?	laklak
Dari reading?	laklak
Iranian reading?	laklak
Tajik reading?	laklak

Noun

لک‌لک • (lak-lak) (plural لک‌لک‌ها (lak-lak-hâ))

1. stork

Descendants

• → Chagatai: لکلک (laklak)
  • Uyghur:

    Arabic script: لەگلەك (leglek)

    Cyrillic script: ләгләк (leglek)

  • Uzbek:

    Cyrillic script: лайлак (laylak)

    Latin script: laylak

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: लकलक (laklak)

  Urdu: لَکْلَک (laklak)

• → Karachay-Balkar: лелек (lelek)
• → Karaim: leklek
• → Karakalpak: láylek
• → Kazakh: ләйлек (läilek), ләйлік (läilık) (proscribed)
  • → Russian: леклек (leklek), леглек (leglek) (Orenburg 18th century)
• → Kyrgyz: леклек (leklek), легилек (legilek), илегилек (ilegilek)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish:
  • Azerbaijani: leylək
  • Ottoman Turkish: لكلك (leklek, leylek), لیلك (leylek)
    • Turkish: leylek
  • → Armenian: լագլագ (laglag), լակլակ (laklak), լայլակ (laylak), լեյլեկ (leylek)
  • → Avar: лакълакъ (laqxʼlaqxʼ)
  • → Bulgarian: ле́лек (lélek), леляк (leljak), лейлек (lejlek) (archaic, regional)
  • → Church Slavonic: лили́къ (lilíkŭ)
  • → Crimean Tatar: lejlek
  • → Greek: λελέκι (leléki), λέλεκας (lélekas)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (archaic, regional)

    Cyrillic script: ле́лек, лѐјлек

    Latin script: lélek, lèjlek

  • → Ukrainian: леле́ка (leléka)
• → Pashto: لکلک (laklák), لګلګ (laglág)
• → Tatar: ләкләк (läkläk)
• → Turkmen:

  Cyrillic script: леглек

  Latin script: leglek