cılk

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish جلق, of unknown origin.

Adjective

cılk

1. addled, rotten (of an egg)
2. inflamed, festering (of a wound)

Derived terms

• cılk çıkmak (“to come to nought”)

Further reading

• “cılk”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cılk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 671
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN