كلبچه

See also: کلپچه‎

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

كلب‎ (kelep, “yarn”) +‎ ـچه‎ (-çe, diminutive suffix), by confusion with بیلكچه‎ (bilekçe, “handcuff”). Also Azerbaijani kələfçə / کلپچه‎ and hence Persian کلپچه‎ (kelepče).

Noun

كلبچه • (kelepçe)

  1. a pair of handcuffs

Descendants
  • Turkish: kelepçe
  • → Arabic: كَلَبْشَة‎ (kalabša)
  • → Armenian: քելեփչե (kʿelepʿčʿe)

References
  • Eren, Hasan (1999), “kelepçe”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 228b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كلبچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1034a
  • Stachowski, Marek (2019), “kelepçe”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 215a
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