калека

• калѣ́ка (kalě́ka) – Pre-reform orthography (1918)
• каля́ка (kaljáka), каля́га (kaljága) (dialectal)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قالیق‎ (qalyq).

Older sources derived from Persian کالک‎ (kâlak, “hideous”) via Ottoman Turkish كالك‎ (kālak).

The word кали́ка (kalíka, “wanderer”) may be related.

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈlʲekə]

кале́ка • (kaléka) m anim or f anim (genitive кале́ки, nominative plural кале́ки, genitive plural кале́к)

1. cripple (person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities; has some negative connotation)

• кале́чить (kaléčitʹ), покале́чить (pokaléčitʹ), искале́чить (iskaléčitʹ)
• кали́ка (kalíka) (possibly)

• Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 473
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “калека”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Matzenauer, Antonín (1870), “калика”, in Cizí slova ve slovanských řečech [Foreign words in Slavic languages] (in Czech), Brno: Matica Moravská, page 39
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “каліка”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Miklosich, Franz (1886) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 109b