kolçak
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قولچاق (kolçak, “gauntlet; mitten”), from Proto-Turkic *kolčak (“muff, gauntlet”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: kol‧çak
Noun
[edit]kolçak (definite accusative kolçağı, plural kolçaklar)
- mitten, a type of glove that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb
- armband, armlet, a band worn around the arm, usually to symbolize mourning or protest
- Synonym: pazıbent
- epaulette, an ornamentation, worn on the shoulders of a military uniform, as a sign of rank
- Synonym: apolet
- brassard, bracer, vambrace, an item of plate armor that protects the upper arm of a person
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kolçak”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 618
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kolçak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2717
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kolçak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük