لكلك

Ottoman Turkish

لكلك

Alternative forms

• لقلق (laklak), لیلك (leylek)

Etymology

From Arabic لقلق (laqlaq), but compare also Akkadian 𒀀𒊩𒄷 (/⁠laqlaqqu⁠/, “stork”) and Persian لک‌لک (lak-lak, “stork”).

Noun

لكلك • (leklek or leylek)

1. stork, any of the large wading birds of the family Ciconiidae

Derived terms

• قره لكلك (kara leklek, “black stork”)

Descendants

• Turkish: leylek
• → Ukrainian: леле́ка (leléka)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “leylek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2961
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “لكلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 412a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لكلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1081
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ciconia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 179
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لكلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4194
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “leylek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لكلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1641