лелек

From Old Church Slavonic лиликъ (lilikŭ), probably a wanderwort akin to Turkish leylek (“stork”), Albanian lejlek (“stork”), Greek λέλεκας (lélekas, “wading bird”), Ukrainian леле́ка (leléka, “stork”), ultimately from Persian لک‌لک‎ (lak-lak).

Compare also Czech lelek (“nightjar”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlʲɛlʲɛk]

ле́лек • (lélek) m

1. (dialectal) stork (wading bird of family Ciconiidae)

   Synonym: щъ́ркел (štǎ́rkel)

• ли́лик (lílik), ли́лек (lílek) – dialectal
• лейле́к (lejlék) – from Turkish
• ле́ляк (léljak) – reanalyzed with suffix -як (-jak)

• леле́ча impf (leléča), леле́кам pf (lelékam, “to say le-le”)
• леле́я (leléja, “to wail, to lament”) (colloquial)

• лелек in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)
• Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “лелек”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 354

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛlɛk]

лелек • (lelek) m

1. lament, wail, cry

• IPA^(key): /lêleːk/
• Hyphenation: ле‧лек

ле̏ле̄к m (Latin spelling lȅlēk)

1. wailing, weeping

• “лелек” in Hrvatski jezični portal